Many people try to juggle a growing number of unfinished tasks by multi-tasking. As we discussed in a previous post, multi-tasking just makes you less productive because our brains do not work that ...

Multitasking usually lowers productivity because most people are “task switching,” which creates a mental “switch cost” that slows processing and reduces accuracy. Switching between tasks strains ...

Screens vie for our attention everywhere now, and many of us struggle to keep our minds focused on one task at a time. Research shows that media multitasking, like texting while watching video shorts, ...