860: Multitasking and Anxiety
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses the important topic of how multitasking can contribute substantially to our anxiety. Contemporary technology such as the phone and PC compound the threat of multitasking in our lives as our attention is so easily pulled in many directions all at once. Listen in to learn how multitasking hurts our state of mind and how to reduce our tendency to multitask.
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What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.
-Susan Cain
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| 0:00.0 | This is meant to be an ad for the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5. |
| 0:03.8 | How it stands up perfectly on a desk for business calls |
| 0:07.0 | and has a larger cover screen for emails. |
| 0:09.3 | But we've got one in the studio so our sound engineer Brian is distracted. |
| 0:13.5 | He's not even listening, look. |
| 0:15.0 | Flannel, pomegranate, weasel. |
| 0:18.1 | The new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 for business. |
| 0:21.0 | Unfold the wonder, available now at Samsung Business Shop. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah, very good. Perfect take. |
| 0:30.0 | This Sunday were lied from the home of smart energy use, |
| 0:32.8 | three Acacia Drive, and Dave Devo peck him off to a flyer. |
| 0:36.4 | Bat's cooking next week's meals off. |
| 0:38.4 | Nice nutmeg, and now the washing machines on, |
| 0:41.2 | then straight into the ironing. |
| 0:42.6 | That please see for the home side. |
| 0:44.4 | Thanks to the hard-priced electricity, |
| 0:46.2 | brim British gas. |
| 0:47.6 | Full-time Devo saved it all for Sunday. |
| 0:50.2 | Now we can enjoy the football. |
| 0:52.3 | Get half-crest electricity every Sunday with British gas peak safe. |
| 0:55.6 | Sunday's 11 to 4 and 24th of September, |
| 0:57.9 | season C's apply smart meat to required. |
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