The Myth of Multitasking

I’ve discussed multitasking before, but it was top of my mind after Merlin posted a quote by Eideteker:

Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.

Mr. Mann says:

“Multi-taskers” are really just splitting their time and attention into smaller slices than you; no one can really do more than one thing at a time.

Be sure to check out the related podcast episode on the topic, or the post How Doing It All Gets Nothing Done over at Get Rich Slowly.

Update: on a reread of the post, it appears that I said “Merlin” one to many times. It’s fixed now.

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