010: The Magic of Monotasking
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Today we're talking all about monotasking. Practicing monotasking puts the focus on one task at a time. When you shift your mindset from being efficient to being effective, you will truly begin to feel more productive. You'll learn some real ways you can implement monotasking in your daily life and start being more productive with your time.
What's In This Episode:
- Why we should focus on being effective, not efficient.
- How working on one task at a time is actually faster than multitasking.
- Why monotasking will help build solid relationships with others.
- How monotasking is a practice of mindfulness and can contribute to daily happiness.
- Learn the 5 Keys to Monotasking.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. Join Tanya Dalton as she helps you discover your passions and priorities through the power of productivity. |
| 0:08.2 | Tanya has transformed her personal productivity mission into Inkwell Press, a seven-figure business that has already changed the lives of thousands of fiercely loyal fans. |
| 0:18.2 | To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply |
| 0:22.0 | register at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:27.8 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, |
| 0:33.5 | and this is episode 10. Today, we are going to be talking about a productivity strategy called |
| 0:40.0 | monotasking. And if you were with me last week for episode nine, you know that we talked about |
| 0:46.1 | multitasking and how it's actually killing our productivity. So many of us feel like multitasking |
| 0:52.7 | is the way to go because we're getting more done, |
| 0:55.0 | but we found through all of our statistics and studies and all that research that the opposite |
| 1:00.9 | was true. So I'm going to really quickly just review what we discussed last week just to remind you, |
| 1:06.2 | and then we'll talk about what the solution is going to be. So, first of all, background tasking and |
| 1:12.2 | multitasking are two different things. Background tasking is probably what you're doing right now, |
| 1:17.9 | listening to this podcast while you're working out or driving in the car. It uses two different |
| 1:23.6 | sections of your brain at the same time, And that works really well with the way your |
| 1:28.0 | brain works. Multitasking is actually switch tasking. It's working in the same section of the brain |
| 1:35.8 | with two or more tasks or projects. So maybe you're working on the computer and chatting on the |
| 1:42.6 | phone. Your brain is not able to do both of those |
| 1:45.8 | as effectively as possible. So I know I gave you a lot of numbers, a lot of case studies, |
| 1:52.3 | and I'm going to give you one more just now, just in case you need a little more convincing. |
| 1:57.2 | Michigan State ran a study where they tested the students' ability to persevere through interruptions |
| 2:02.8 | while taking a computerized test. These interruptions came in the form of pop-ups that require the |
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