To many people, the dream is to be a multitasker. Who wouldn't want to be a smart, capable person with the drive to do 20 things at once? However, multitasking can hinder your growth and sanity far more than it can help. When you multitask, your brain is divided.

Your brain isn't a pie chart that you can cut into nice and neat pieces. Everytime you divide your attention, your brain needs to process and reset what it was doing. If you don't give it enough time, then it will become easy to get overwhelmed with all of the activites going on. Therefore it will take you longer to multitask 5 things instead of just doing those 5 things one after the other. Monotasking is a way to break the multitasking curse.

A nice example is tossing and catching an egg in the air for 5 seconds. If you juggle 5 eggs in the air at once for 5 seconds, you're going to feel overwhelmed very fast and potentially break the eggs. But if you take the individual time and focus for each egg, then it will take more time but each egg will be safe and you'll accomplish what you set out to do.

Look at your daily schedule. On most planners you only get one column of activites per day. It's helpful to think of your day like this. Each chunk of time should be spent on starting and finishing one goal. Once it's done, then you can easily move on to the next activity. Which is far more fulfilling than slowly and painfully trying to keep 5 activites going at once.

By fully completing one task, you can enjoy a small dopamine rush that you've accomplished something and then move on to the next dopamine rush.

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