Quotes About Distraction

Multitasking is a scam.

BIG IDEAS Distraction is natural. Don't feel bad when you get distracted. Everyone gets distracted. Multitasking takes a toll. At home or at work, distractions lead to poor choices, painful mistakes, and unnecessary stress. Distraction undermines results. When you try to do too much at once, you can end up doing nothing well. Figure out what matters most in the moment and give it your undivided attention.

Multitasking doesn't save time —it wastes time.

To do two things at once is to do neither." —Publilius Syrus

But juggling isn't multitasking. Juggling is an illusion. To

Multitasking is a lie. It's a lie because nearly everyone accepts it as an effective thing to do. It's become so mainstream that people actually think it's something they should do, and do as often as possible. We not only hear talk about doing it, we even hear talk about getting better at it. More

Toying with time will lead you down a rabbit hole with no way out. Believing this lie does its harm by convincing you to do things you shouldn't and stop doing things you should. Middle mismanagement can be one of the most destructive things you ever do. You can't ignore the inevitability of time.

The cost in terms of extra time from having to task switch depends on how complex or simple the tasks are

irrelevancy.

high multitaskers are suckers for irrelevancy.

But it's actually a "way of lie," for the truth is multitasking is neither efficient nor effective. In the world of results, it will fail you every time.

You can actually give attention to two things, but that is what's called "divided attention." And make no mistake. Take on two things and your attention gets divided. Take on a third and something gets dropped.

With research overwhelmingly clear, it seems insane that—knowing how multitasking leads to mistakes, poor choices, and stress—we attempt it anyway Maybe it's just too tempting.

multitasking slows us down and makes us slower witted.

Why would we ever tolerate multitasking when we're doing our most important work?

The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships." Every

In order to be able to put the principle of The ONE Thing to work, you can't buy into the lie that trying to do two things at once is a good idea. Though multitasking is sometimes possible, it's never possible to do it effectively

Researchers estimate we lose 28 percent of an average workday to multitasking ineffectiveness.

Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.

To quote Nass, "Multitaskers were just lousy at everything." Multitasking is a lie.

Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time." —Steve Uzzell

When you try to do two things at once, you either can't or won't do either well.

The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others

Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk.