BRX Pro Tip: No Such Thing as Multitasking
Stone Payton : [00:00:00] Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, what strategies do you lean on to help you multitask?
Lee Kantor: [00:00:11] I don’t multitask. There has just been recent research from MIT that says that human brains are wired to just do one cognitively demanding thing at a time. And what’s happening when most people think they are multitasking is really called task switching. You’re just kind of toggling between a variety of tasks and you’re not really doing any one of them well as well as you could be if you were focusing in on them. You’re just kind of bouncing between them individually and thinking that you’re doing them all simultaneously. But sadly, when you’re bouncing between these tasks, that means you’re less creative and far more likely to make mistakes than if you were just locked in on one of those individual tasks and focusing solely on that.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:57] So next time, instead of multitasking, try removing all your distractions and just lock into one task at a time. Give it 100% of your effort rather than trying to get several things done at the same time. And then, when you completed that task, move on to the next one. You’ll see you’ll be more effective, you’ll get a better result, and it actually will take you less time.
