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Modern Mentor

517 - The Art of Monotasking vs. Multitasking

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Stop multitasking and use monotasking to give yourself a way to approach your work and life with mindfulness. Read the transcript at Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts FOLLOW GET-IT-DONE GUY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetItDoneGuy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetItDoneGuy

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0:00.0

This is Stevea Robbins.

0:01.9

Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:09.2

Every year I attend an event called Burning Man.

0:12.0

If you don't know it, it's a 75,000-person city that comes into existence only one week a year.

0:17.2

It's built by artists and sculptors and mad scientists in one of the most inhospitable

0:21.4

deserts in the world. Nothing lives there but stink bugs, and it's so hot and dry, they don't even

0:26.5

stink. Burning Man is a leave-no-trace event. It means exactly what it sounds like. Every single

0:31.6

thing you bring in, you take out. Everything. Every can, every wrapper, you even collect and

0:36.7

evaporate your wastewater. While this

0:39.1

sounds like a lot of work, it's actually an unfriken believable amount of work, and that's a good

0:44.0

thing, because it's the perfect environment to uncover a deep truth about how human beings operate.

0:50.5

Humans have flow. When you're brushing your teeth, you have to put all of your attention on brushing, because

0:56.4

how will you wet your toothbrush without getting any water on the playa?

0:59.8

Where will you spit?

1:00.8

How will you rinse your mouth?

1:02.4

In daily life, we have sinks and plumbing to take care of all that, but at Burning Man,

1:05.8

none of that exists.

1:07.1

So you put your full attention on brushing your teeth.

1:10.3

You think through every movement.

1:11.7

Do you account for everything?

1:13.2

You enter a state of flow.

1:15.3

When we have to put our full attention on something, our brains quiet out.

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