Hello and welcome back to practicing Human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miskara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about the downside of trying to do two things at once.

More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay. Okay, so let's start this episode with a quote by Pupilous Seris, who says,

to do two things at once is to do neither.

To do two things at once is to do neither. So notice how that one lands for you, what it makes

you think about. I think we can hear that and quickly resonate with it.

But we might resonate with it and that, oh yeah, I do that,

or I know what that's like, or, oh, yeah,

got to stop multitasking but we could write it off

and just keep going about our normal day unless we reflect on this more meaningfully.

And I do think it warrants a more meaningful reflection,

especially in our ultra distracted culture

and our very demanding culture where we have lots of

to-do's the tendency can be to try to not only do multiple things at once, but to be holding multiple things in our mind

at once, and while doing one thing, thinking about something else or multiple other things that we still need to do.

And many of us get by day after day doing this.

And this isn't to say that we can't multitask.

If you have children, and you're taking care of your children, you can also be thinking about what you're going to be doing next

and what else needs to get done and conversations need to have phone calls you need to

make work that needs to be done.

You can be juggling a lot in a given moment within reason, meaning you can't be in multiple places

at once, but you can be thinking about something else

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