Are you good at multi-tasking?
I’ll save you the trouble — No, you’re not.
Here are 3 reasons (please read them 1 at a time for best effect):
1. Lord Chesterfield offered the following advice: “There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.” Read the full article to understand what productivity is (and isn’t).
2. Multi-tasking makes you dumber. Find out what good programmers know, including this scary diagram:
3. “Multi-taskers are lousy at multi-tasking”, Big Important University Study Says.
As soon as you stop trying to do so many things, and just do one thing well, you’ll start achieving more.
And, to end big with a flash of Hollywood existentialism, the movie City Slickers had this to say:
Curly: You know what the secret of life is?
Mitch: No, what?
Curly: This.
Mitch: Your finger?
Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don’t mean shit.
Mitch: That’s great, but what’s the one thing?
Curly: That’s what you’ve got to figure out.
You’re almost as bad as me quoting lines from the movies haha!!
“There’s enough time to do something right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.”