386. The Multitasking Lie: Why Doing More at Once Gets Less Done

The Real Jason Duncan Podcast · Aug 19, 2026 · 8m

I teach focus for a living, and this week I became the exact problem I'm about to warn you about. Laptop open, three AI tools running, jumping between all of them all day, and getting less done on every single one.

Multitasking feels like productivity, especially now that AI has made it easier than ever to run five things at once. But it's a lie, and in this Wednesday Special Edition I break down exactly why.

I walk through the Stanford research that studied heavy multitaskers and found the opposite of what everyone expected: the people who multitask the most are actually the worst at it…