Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

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.

In effect, dividing your attention means that neither (or none) of the things you're working on is really getting the full effect of your intelligence, and that it in the end takes you longer than it would if you did one thing at a time.

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

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

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

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

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.

Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.

You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

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.

When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things 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.

To do two things at once is to do neither.