Only 2.5% of people can genuinely multitask. Here's what the science says about switch costs and how to get your focus back.

A new Georgetown University study says multitasking can be improved with repetition, but only with certain tasks.

When you think you’re multitasking—responding to emails while listening to a conference call while monitoring chat messages—your brain is actually rapidly switching between tasks rather than ...

The article argues that "multitasking" in complex environments like an airplane cockpit is a myth; pilots actually "serial-task," rapidly switching focus between individual tasks. Attempting to cram ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Melinda French Gates believes in taking on tasks one at a time. During a Monday appearance for her new ...

Have you ever gotten good at the wrong thing? I think it might have happened to me. Yesterday, I read this article about the myth of multitasking -- how what we once thought of as skillful juggling is ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Task switching may be cutting your productivity by 40%. Here’s what the multitasking research says and the fix that actually works ...

Only 2.5% of people can genuinely handle two cognitively demanding tasks at once without measurable performance loss, according to research from the University of Utah. For everyone else, what feels ...