BRX Pro Tip: Instead of Multitasking, Try This
Stone Payton: And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, you have spoken to the myth of the dangers of the challenges of multitasking. But what’s the solution? What’s the alternative?
Lee Kantor: I’ve kind of given up trying to get people to stop multitasking, so I’ve added kind of a corollary to it. So, instead of multitasking, try sequential tasking. And a lot of times when people multitask, they’re doing disparate tasks and that is inefficient. And it’s slow and it requires a reboot of your brain every time and you’re changing directions and it just doesn’t work.
Lee Kantor: But sequential tasking is kind of a middle ground. So, you’re doing multiple tasks, but at least those tasks are on one project. So, you can take on more than one task at a time, but at least you’re focusing in this one direction. So, this leads to better performance and greater efficiency than multitasking over time because multitasking, as we said, is less efficient because you’re rapidly switching attention to disparate tasks, which forces your brain to work harder and slower.
Lee Kantor: This way, you can focus on all the tasks necessary to complete one project rather than working on these multiple disparate projects at a time. So, try sequential tasking if you are going to be multitasking.
