Multitasking Is Killing Your Productivity - Thatcher Wine | Modern Wisdom Podcast 449

Thatcher Wine is professional book curator, founder of Juniper Books and an author.

Multi-tasking will make you less effective, less productive, less happy and more prone to making errors in work and life. The question of why we're all so tempted to do it and how we can stop seems an obvious next step.

Expect to learn whether multi-tasking is just a modern phenomenon, how monotasking can result in more work being done at a higher quality, how technology has permanently changed the landscape for attention, the usefulness of walking between tasks, why tasks can get more difficult before they get easier again and much more...

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00:00 Intro
00:20 Thatcher’s Multitasking Journey
06:35 Why is Multitasking Bad?
18:09 Experiencing Cancer
27:19 Advantages of Reading
39:14 Why Listening is a Skill
43:48 Benefits of Regular Walking
49:08 Learning & Teaching
57:42 Where to Find Thatcher

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