Jim Kwik explains why multitasking is impossible. What feels like doing several things at once is actually rapid task-switching that kills focus and productivity. The fix: monotask, concentrate on one thing, and get more done.
Are you one of those individuals that have Slack open and you shift to social media and then you're typing up an email and then you start doing X, Y, and Z? How do you maintain your focus and your concentration in a world full of rings and pings and dings and app notifications, social media alerts? What the research says is that we are not really good at multitasking, that multitasking is actually a myth, that really what we're doing is something called task switching. And what is the benefits also of monotasking? When we harness our focus, we're not doing multiple tasks, then we can actually be able to get more things done.
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