{"id":104,"date":"2009-09-14T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-09-14T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:05:00","slug":"suckers-for-irrelevancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/suckers-for-irrelevancy\/","title":{"rendered":""Suckers for irrelevancy""},"content":{"rendered":"

I talk with people regularly about the pitfalls of multitasking.<\/strong> The majority of the time I receive enthusiastic agreement about the productivity downsides of trying to juggle multiple things at the same time.<\/p>\n

And yet take even a casual look around our workplaces and roadways….<\/strong> What do you see?<\/strong> I see plenty of evidence that our actions don’t align with what we say we know.<\/p>\n

Talking on the phone while trying to look up some information–while driving. Trying to draft an e-mail while having a conversation with someone. Checking messages on a Blackberry while sitting in a training session.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Earlier this year I interviewed Dave Crenshaw<\/a>, author of The Myth of Multitasking<\/strong>, for my People and Projects Podcast<\/a>. Dave talked about how we actually switchtask<\/i> rather than multitask, adding stress and wasted time rather than efficiency when juggling multiple creative tasks.<\/p>\n

A new study recently released from Stanford<\/a> confirms Dave’s point. According to Professor Clifford Nass, high multitaskers are “suckers for irrelevancy”, easily distracted by the noise that bombards us all every day.<\/p>\n

Want to get more done today?<\/strong> Work on focusing on one thing and get it done.<\/p>\n

And here’s an idea!<\/strong> Check out the video below (but don’t check e-mail while doing so)!<\/p>\n

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I talk with people regularly about the pitfalls of multitasking. The majority of the time I receive enthusiastic agreement about the productivity downsides of trying to juggle multiple things at the same time. And yet take even a casual look around our workplaces and roadways…. What do you see? I see plenty of evidence that… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61,51,66,60,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p488Wj-1G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}