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Word Wiz: Single-tasking

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

If you're still claiming multitasking as one of your strengths, you should know: Multitasking has been proved to be impossible; it simply can't be done. According to numerous studies, the attempt to multitask drastically reduces our productivity, accuracy, and efficiency.

Focusing on one task at a time (now dubbed "single-tasking") used to be easier before the Internet came along. But now we're tempted to follow link after link until we have 15 browser tabs open—and w

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