Multitasking Is Sh*t

Our brains are not wired to do multiple tasks at the same time. Why do we lie to ourselves that multitasking works?

Today, I am not a man of love. I am here to call out a crap practice that we have somehow convinced ourselves that it works: multitasking. Multitasking is sh*t and it does not work. Here is why.

The fallacy of effective multitasking

We see this a lot in movies, especially in ones involving a highly efficient protagonist; you’ll see them answering the phone, responding to an email, maybe gesturing to someone around them as if they were responding to something. If it is an action movie, the protagonist will be doing security checks via CCTV cameras, taking a call where they are negotiating with the antagonist, drawing out security plans, while also loading their guns. In real life, none of that crap works.

You can try. And if you are really lucky, you will get one out of two tasks right but each task would have been better done if you just did them one at a time instead of all at the same time. I know you are revolting. “But I do multiple things at the same time.”

Do you? Really? Do you???