From the course: Finding and Doing the One Thing

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Avoid multitasking

Avoid multitasking

- Is there anything else you want to make sure you put out there? - I think that that's a temptation for people to think that they can do multiple things at once. I do think you can have multiple things going on in your life, but one of the fundamental truths that we did find in the research is that you're only going to effectively do one thing at a time. I don't know if that's something you want to go deeper into or just make that notion out there, cause I do find that a lot of people want to fight that. They want to be doing their thing with their second screen open with Twitter, they want to be texting friends in between, but if you identify that one thing that really matters, I don't care if you multitask the rest of your day, but for that little period of time that you're trying to make this big investment in your career or your life, I would encourage people to not multitask during that time. - Okay. I will trust in…

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