Episode 664: The Art of Doing One Thing at a Time
We pride ourselves on multitasking.
But the research on this is unambiguous: what we call multitasking is actually task-switching. And we do everything worse when our attention is divided.
In this episode I make the case for the radical, countercultural act of doing one thing at a time. Not as a productivity strategy but as a quality-of-life one. Because when your attention is split, you are never fully anywhere. You are doing everything halfway. Food tastes different when you are not also reading something. A conversation goes somewhere real when you are not half-checking your phone. Work…
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