Joss Whedon 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.

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

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.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

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'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.

There are different usage patterns - I never do email during the day. I don't multitask well at all. I don't know how to be in a meeting and participate and be on email at the same time. I do see some people do it more effectively. I've never quite figured that out.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.

I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

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.

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.

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

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one.

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.

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.