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Switch tasking harms productivity

Switch tasking harms productivity

- Well, so you mentioned psychological research, could you share some striking, you know, stories or studies or evidence bits that kind of layout, but you drop some numbers already, which is intriguing in terms of like the state of play right now, and then what's really possible if we, you know, take on some practices to become unhackable. - Absolutely, so right now we have so many things going at us that a lot of us have adopted the lie of multitasking, and people get confused about multitasking. They say surely I can mow the lawn and listen to an audio book, see, that's multitasking. Multitasking we're actually talking about doing two cognitive things at the same time. And so therefore it'd be like me trying to do a podcast with you right now and check an email, and, you know, check my Instagram. When we do that, it's not multitasking, it's switched tasking. Our IQ drops 40 points. We do what's called attention…

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