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1 thought
As a Singaporean, I had to serve National Service for 2 years. We learnt how to use rifles, grenades, and machine guns.
When I shot for the first time with our rifle, I wondered why we hadn’t developed automatic rifles. With our rifle, we could only fire one shot with each pull of the trigger. We couldn’t hold the trigger to fire more.
That seemed pretty ineffective, no?
But when I shot with the machine gun, I finally realised why.
Firing one shot at a time was much more accurate than firing multiple ones each time.
Today, you might be tempted to multitask, doing many different things at once. But rather than multitasking, why not try monotasking?
1 quote
We work best alone when we are undistracted. But studies show that on average, an office worker is distracted (electronically) every three minutes and that it takes an average of twenty-three minutes to get back on track. It’s hard to break this
cycle because when we get used to interruptions, we learn to interrupt ourselves as well. It’s what has become most comfortable…
If we don’t teach our employees to be alone, they will only know how to be isolated. And frantic.
1 tip
There are many benefits to monotasking, finishing one task before moving onto the next. But it requires you to try. Just for today, rather than having multiple tabs open, or multiple windows, try this.
One tab. One window. One application.
No Alt-Tab. No switching. No multitasking.
At the end of the day, write down all the tasks you managed to complete. Was it more effective?
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