Multitasking; The Enemy Of Productivity

An article that focuses on the detrimental effects of multitasking, and what to do instead.

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Multitasking

What is it?

Multitasking is the process of doing multiple tasks at once.

Multitasking can be both beneficial and detrimental, depending on the situation.

• If you want to save time, multitasking is a good thing.
• If you want to be productive and be a high performer, multitasking is massively harmful.

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In this article, I’m going to focus on the negatives of multitasking; how it can kill your tasks, ruin your focus and be harmful overall.

The negatives of multitasking

Multitasking can kill your productivity.

Multitasking is something massively negative for a few key reasons;

• It decreases the standard and quality of your work.
• It creates mental clutter and chaos, ruining your clarity.
• It decreases your overall productivity.

You cannot produce great work if all of your time, energy and focus is not dedicated to it. You will not become great if your focus is divided between two, three or four…