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Mar 2022
58m 20s

Multitasking Is Killing Your Productivit...

Chris Williamson
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Thatcher Wine is professional book curator, founder of Juniper Books and an author. Multi-tasking will make you less effective, less productive, less happy and more prone to making errors in work and life. The question of why we're all so tempted to do it and how we can stop seems an obvious next step. Expect to learn whether multi-tasking is just a modern ... Show More
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