Should We Try to Multitask?

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Kessonga breaks down the reasons why multitasking isn't all that it's cracked up to be. You can find the book, "Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression" (2nd Edition) by Zindel V. Segal, Mark Williams and John Teasdale here. Kessonga holds a Masters degree in Social Work, and is a Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher. He also serves as an adjunct Mindfulness instructor at UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Prior to joining Headspace he had his own private practice as a licensed acupuncturist and an outpatient psychotherapist. You can reach out on Instagram here! Try the Headspace app free for 30 days here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm K. Songa and welcome back to Radiohead Space. It's a wonderful Tuesday.
0:22.2	This week I'm answering some listener questions about mindfulness, meditation, or just life
0:27.7	in general. Today's inquiry is about multitasking. It goes like this.
0:34.5	Hi, K. Songa. I truly believe I have mastered multitasking. I even learned how to do it during
0:41.7	my meditation practice. What do you think? And do you have any tips in general about multitasking?
0:48.2	So, my first tip about multitasking is to simply rethink it. A teach of mine put it quite simply.
1:00.4	Multitasking is one of the biggest myths in existence. I remember asking what she meant by this,
1:07.4	because at the time I thought of myself as a pretty efficient multitasker, but what she said next
1:13.8	really made sense. It's not so much that you're doing more than one thing at once, because essentially
1:20.7	we can only do one thing at a time. What we're really doing is thinking that we're doing more than
1:27.9	one thing at the same time. And as a result, what we may actually be causing is mental clutter.
1:36.9	This makes me think about something called the three bees. In the book, mindfulness-based
1:43.2	cognitive therapy for depression, mindfulness experts Zindo V Siegel, Mark Williams, and John
1:50.2	Tizdo, they explain a bit about the three bees, the busy mind, the background mind, and the
1:57.6	being mind. I'm totally paraphrasing here, but let's get into what this all means. So, the busy mind
2:05.8	is sometimes referred to as the monkey mind. That's something I'm sure we've all experienced before.
2:11.5	It's always looking for something to think about. For example, it worries over the future and the past.
2:20.1	It makes lists, it fantasizes, and creates imaginary conversations like, if I say this,
2:28.4	then the person I'm talking to will say that. It's goal-oriented, and multitasking falls under
2:35.1	this busy or monkey mind category. The background mind refers to the aspect of the mind that's in the
2:42.7	background, working at evaluating experiences, judging oneself or others, and checking to see how
2:50.6	one's current situation is compared to the idea of how they would like it to be. The busy and
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