Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

Multitasking or task switching weakens

You're doing one thing and then the other thing in rapid succession back to back.

it decreases your productivity, ironically, decreases your cognition, your memory, your attention, all of these things that you would think multitasking is not doing.

And your brain is really wired to do one thing at a time.

And so what happens with multitasking or task switching weakens your prefrontal cortex.

So the antidote to multitasking is actually monotasking, doing one thing at a time.

Remember that part of the brain that we talked about at the start of our conversation, which is about strategic thinking and planning and memory and organization and all these important things.

And the way you monotask, I laid out in the five resets, because that's like a very common question I get.

Multitasking or task switching, it decreases your productivity.

It's like, how can I do one thing at a time?

I live in a world where things, you know,

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ironically, decreases your cognition, your memory, your attention, all of these things that you think multitasking is not doing.

10 things are expected of me all at once.

And so you can focus on time blocking as a technique.

So the antidote to multitasking is actually monotasking, doing one thing at a time.

And that is simply, let's say you have four tasks to complete in an hour.

Spend 10 minutes on task one, take a two minute break.

And the way you monotask, I laid out in the five resets, because that's like a very common question I get.

Spend 10 minutes on task two, take a two minute break and on and on.