Like a lot of people, I used to switch-task pretty much nonstop. I dabbled in monotasking for a bit, but I didn’t really prioritize it across all areas of my life until I read the management book The Mind of the Leader, in which the authors write that switch-tasking makes us “masters of everything that is irrelevant.”12 YIKES. But also . . . true? Experts agree that switch-tasking simply doesn’t work. When your attention is divided across tasks and tabs and devices and conversations, you end up feeling less whole. It left me feeling drained and scattered, and the scientific evidence and my own
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