Melinda French Gates said she tends to focus on one task at a time to avoid mistakes. She said multitasking is a myth and led to errors in her career. During her career at Microsoft, multitasking was ...

Many people believe they are good at multitasking. Modern life often requires people to switch between several activities, ...

Have you ever gotten good at the wrong thing? I think it might have happened to me. Yesterday, I read this article about the myth of multitasking -- how what we once thought of as skillful juggling is ...

"Multitasking means screwing up several things at once," somebody once said, wrongly. In fact, we don't do many things at once, ever. We do many things in quick succession. And some of us are very ...

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Discovered: Multitasking isn't a myth, pigeons aren't as dumb as they look and act, anti-depressants and therapy don't really work, the Brits' criminal and pirate ancestors, better treatment for ...

This One Thing Shaved Nearly an Hour Off My Workday—and Now I'm Telling Everyone To Do It originally appeared on Parade. I had the following line in my cover letter for more than a decade: ...

It was last week, when I almost walked into a bollard, that I decided to stop multitasking. I was pushing the pram while doing an online food shop on my phone, and I narrowly avoided bashing my head ...

Sometimes my head hurts. Usually it's precipitated by a period of time when I'm in a state of multi-tasking chaos. I come to that state quite naturally. Those of you who know me know that I'm the ...

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