Defrag Your Brain!
Free up time and energy lost (easily a day a week) in seemingly unavoidable multitasking.
Gain not only time and throughput, but also increased customer satisfaction and accelerated capability and collaboration, in the process.
Defrag Your Brain!
It takes a lot longer than we think to reach deep concentration on demanding tasks - and we incur this setup cost every time we return to the uncompleted task.
This section exposes the costs of multitasking and provides a set of techniques for reducing their occurence and minimising their impact.
Skim the first section - unless you're interested in that sort of thing - and focus on working out how to implement the techniques in the second section.
The Impact and Costs of Multitasking on the Human Brain
What is a Task?
Free up time and energy lost (easily a day a week) in seemingly unavoidable multitasking.
Knowing this will make what's to come easier to understand.
What is a Task?
A task is anything that we could complete if we weren't interupted, by ourselves or someone or something else. Tasks are different from (mini-)projects
Requesting information is nearly always a task: We send an email, make a phone-call or call out to someone. Exception example
Getting information is nearly always a (mini-)project - because it requires us to take a number of steps that can seldom be done-back-to-back. Exception example.)
Simple Techniques (that we already know how to use) to Reduce Multitasking and Its Impact
