Brain Quote by Michael Harris

When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a…

— Karen Finerman

What it turns out is that we think we're multitasking, but we're not. The brain is sequential tasking: we flit from one thought to…

— Daniel Levitin

“Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of…

— Susan Cain

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

— James Surowiecki

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

— Daniel Levitin

“Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of…

— Susan Cain

“We often think that combining tasks will save us time, but scientific evidence shows that it has the opposite effect. Even those who claim…

— Hector Garcia Puigcerver

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

— Marilyn vos Savant

“Those who consistently attempt multitasking find it harder to ignore irrelevant information and take longer moving between tasks—in other words, for all their frantic…

— Margaret Heffernan

“Multitasking is actually a hindrance to productivity. Focus on one thing and get it done.”

— Del Suggs

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

— Marilyn vos Savant

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

— Susan Cain