One thing I am learning is to slow down. Multitasking is great, but I when try to do everything at warp speed I just end up with typos and stress.
I will say it's great to be a woman because we're very good at multitasking. I could nurse and cook dinner at the same time. It is juggling. It's juggling and you've got to commit to working on the weekends - I do both.
Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.
Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.
Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.
I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.
I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.
Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.
Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.
Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
Multitasking is a lie.
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.
I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.
I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.
I did that thing where you scratch your eyebrow and flip someone off at the same time. I'm good at multitasking like that.
I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book.
I like to think of murder-suicide as extreme multitasking.