Yael Cohen Quotes

There's no such thing as multitasking.

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

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.

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

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

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

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

You can't work on 15 problems 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.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

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.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

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

You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you?

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.

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

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.

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

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

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.