One of those cyborgs from some movie with multiple monitors in front of them, head on a swivel, perfectly anticipating and dealing with anything that comes their way.īut if I’m honest with myself? I’ve experienced that probably twice, in about 16 years of trying. It feels like you’re a superhuman of focus that can’t be distracted by anything. I know it feels great whenever you’re occasionally able to get in the zone on a project while having emails fly at you. Maybe you actually enjoy the feeling of multi-tasking and think you’re more productive when you do it. And, save for those of us who have particularly traumatic associative memories with evil bosses, it’s also a comedy. We feel like Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada, running down the street holding a box of priceless Hermes scarves, on her way to procure a priceless steak dinner for her boss while yelling on the phone about obtaining an unobtainable manuscript of the then-unreleased last Harry Potter book. We feel as if we have so much going on, so much craziness and hecticness, that the only way to truly do any of our work with any degree of efficiency is to do it all at once at a frantic pace. Sometimes our work or personal lives seem to call for it. It’s almost like we’re irrationally addicted to it. But you and me both still try to multitask all the time. I used to claim to know it on a factual level too. I know you probably know that, on a factual level.
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