290: Stop Multi-tasking, Try This Instead

The most important thing is to keep the most important thing the most important thing. And the most important thing is what you're doing at moment.

What the research says is that we are not really good at multitasking, and that multitasking is actually a myth—that really what we're doing is something called task-switching.

If you have a to-do list, I would offer another strategy: Have a not to-do list. What's on your not to-do list? Multitasking.