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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to batch similar tasks.

Batching tasks, sometimes referred to as batch processing, cuts down on the time and energy

expended by task switching. You know those times when you find yourself hopping

back and forth multiple times an hour between the document you're working on and your inbox,

suspecting you're getting nothing done?

Well, you're probably right.

You aren't getting much done.

Do one type of task at a time, and you can save yourself all kinds of time.

We live in a world that encourages near constant task switching. We carry around our phones in our pockets and we check them every

time they buzz. The problem with this is that cognitive scientists have found that task switching has various costs.

We make more errors.

And although switching can feel productive,

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