Dave Evans

And if I really can accept that I might make a mistake and that's okay, then the anxiety can be dropped.

The anxiety is still an elective pain.

So I can drop the anxiety or I can drop the boredom by having the mental discipline of choosing my way into the moment.

Now suddenly the flow channel quadruples in size.

I think so.

In short, I'm not saying never do it.

And we do know the truth is neither humans nor computers actually multitask.

Yeah.

So getting good at task switching quickly is a performance optimization capability.

And in the high productivity world, that's not a bad skill to have.

And I get the feedback loop of I got more done or I got more for my time or I got paid higher or my PowerPoints were cooler than yours, whatever it is.

Or I got done what I needed to get done more quickly so that I can... I bought some time back.

Yeah.

So, but again, if I only do that... In perpetuity.

Again, the flow requires...

Full participation, and the reason time stands still and becomes eternal, time elongates and disappears all at once because I'm so fully present to it, is this full availability and full concentration.

If I'm switching constantly, I'm never going to have that full presence.

So I do think what we call multitasking and flow are simply different states.

Now, somebody might argue I can flow by how well I'm multitasking.

Yep, yep.