**Get more done less stressfully by doing one thing at a time.** You can do anything, but you can’t do everything. Not all at once, at least. Multitasking may not be a as complete fallacy (as some claim), but the typical kinds we think of when somebody talks about it - those kinds are a bad idea. [[Multifocus]] is generally bad. Have one thing. [[Know Your Immediate Task]]. **Working intently on one thing at a time (until you've hit a natural pausing point) is the key to doing high quality, low stress work.** You cannot have a breakthrough on something while thinking about something else. Juggling several tasks at once leads to poor performance on all of them, burnout, and undue stress. **** # More ## Source - [[Deep Work]] - [[The 4-Hour Work Week]] ## Related - [[Multichannel Multitasking]] - [[Never Multitask]] - [[Be Selective]]