My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.

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The last time we talked, I shared a story about a notorious CIA mistake that happened in Paris in 1995,

a mistake that Intel professionals call the Paris

flap. Like all major Intel errors, a lot of factors were involved. Poor information sharing,

flawed resource management, personal distractions, the list goes on. But at the heart of the Paris

flap was a single CIA employee struggling with

task saturation. That was the critical piece that made this massive disaster a reality.

Now, task saturation, like we covered, happens when the number of tasks that you have to

complete is more than the number of tasks that you have to complete is more than the number

of tasks you are able to immediately prioritize.

Today, I want to give you a simple method that CIA field operators use to combat task

saturation any time it creeps up.

Because when you successfully fight task saturation and win, you avoid

errors that can cost you opportunities and income, relationships, and all sorts of painful,

painful losses. With task saturation, the place to start is to understand your own personal threshold for managing tasks.

Like we discussed previously, everybody has a different threshold for handling multiple tasks.

Some people only like to do one thing at a time and other people like to juggle while walking

on a tightrope.

But knowing your threshold isn't about knowing how many tasks you can handle.

It's about knowing how many tasks you feel confident handling.

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