Buret McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast, right

in email while in a Zoom call, talking on the phone while walking, scrolling through

social media while watching a movie.

And both our work and our play were all doing more and more multitasking, doing two things

that once makes us feel if we're being more efficient and getting more done.

But my guess today would say that all this task juggling actually makes us less productive,

diminishing the quality of our work and stressing our minds.

And we better off curbing our multitasking in favor of monotasking.

His name is Thatcher Wine, and he's the author of the book, The 12 Monotask.

Do one thing at a time to do everything better.

Today on the show, Thatcher explains the illusions around multitasking and the benefits of monotasking,

that is bringing our full focus to a single task at a time.

We discuss why reading is a foundational part of becoming a monotasker, and then getting

into some of the other activities Thatcher recommends monotasking, including walking, listening,

traveling, and commuting, and thinking.

Thatcher argues that doing things like listening to a podcast while cleaning your house isn't

necessarily a bad thing, but that you may want to try stripping everything away from your

daily tasks except the primary tasks themselves to observe the resulting effect and strengthen

your monotasking muscles and rebuild your attention span.

Once you've experimented with doing a task alone, you may decide to lay your back in the

second activity, or maybe decide you actually like giving it your all.

Other shows over check out our show notes at a-wim.is slash monotask.

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