Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.

They say multitasking is a female trait, but it's not about gender; it's about personality type.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.

I think that we get so distracted with our smartphones... It takes your body and your brain time to switch between tasks. If we can focus on what we're doing, we'll be more productive at that task.

I think humanity can do more than one thing at the same time.

Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.

I can multitask.

I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Focusing on the right priorities can help you do more faster.

Professionally, I like doing one thing at a time and enjoy directing the most.

You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you?

I need to have many things cooking at the same time.