**Some multitasking is possible, but multitasking within a channel should be avoided at all costs. ** > [!tldr] 👉 Multitasking isn't getting a lot of things done at once, it's getting nothing done on a lot of different avenues simultaneously. Multitasking, the ways most people traditionally think of it, is not "working on many things at once", it's _rapidly switching between between working on several things before any of them are finished_. This is a bad habit, as each of those switches involves switching contexts in your head. Your mental RAM is consumed by multiple applications at once, and you're only able to maintain surface-level thoughts and information about each of the constituent tasks you're working on. See [[Context Loading]]. Worse, constantly using the [[Attentional Switch]] leads to quicker [[Decision Fatigue]]. The one exception to this guidance is [[Multichannel Multitasking]]. **** # More ## Source - [[The 4-Hour Work Week]] - [[Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-Free Productivity]] - [[Indistractable]] ## Related - [[Multichannel Multitasking]] - [[Monotasking]] - [[Context Loading]] - [[Decision Fatigue]] - [[Be Selective]]