There was once a time when it was really cool to say that you “multi-tasked”, it made you sound really busy and really important, hence the need to do two things at once.
The more people thought about productivity, the more it began to be recognized that there really is no way to do two things well at the same time.
When I read email while I talk on the phone, I miss parts of the conversation and don’t do a really great job of reading messages, either. Now fairly universally, the myth of multi-tasking has been exposed.
One of my favorite productivity guru’s, Merlin Mann recently ran this quote, that he had found, on his 43 Folders site.
“Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.”
Here is a sound clip from a Merlin podcast trashing the concept of multi-tasking.
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