 You are dumb if you multitask. All right. Now listen, I just realized that I've been dumb for a long time this morning because I read this book called Scrum, the art of doing twice the work in half the time. And in this book, he gives you an exercise to prove that if you multitask, you're just slaughtering your own productivity, you're slaughtering time essentially. Now I'm going to do a little exercise here. I'm going to show you on the board to prove the point that multitasking is not as productive as we can be because I don't know if you're anything like me. What I do is I'll check my email and then I might check my Facebook or then I might do one part of one project and then I'll move to another part of another project, then I'll take a phone call, then I'm going to email someone else, then I'll go and do something else like I've got my podcast. So maybe I'm doing a podcast interview and then I'll jump over and I'll do something with a 30 day no alcohol challenge. And even though I'm thinking, wow, I'm doing so many things. I'm so clever. I've got these businesses. I'm not doing it in the most efficient way because I'm bouncing from project to project. And what this book points out is that when you move from project to project, your brain can't focus your sending energy all over the place. Let me give you an example just before we do this, this little exercise to prove it. Here is energy. And when you're multitasking, you're sending energy out here, you're sending it out here, you're sending it out here, you're sending it here, you're sending it here. That's a multitasker. So energy is going all over the place. But if you focus on one thing at a time, one thing, complete it and then move on to the next thing, this is what energy looks like. So here, energy is going all over the place. And here, energy is going in one direction. Now, let's do this little test here and you can do this at home. So what we're going to do is, Sarah is filming, just switch the camera around and introduce yourself. So Sarah is filming here. Now, Sarah is going to time this. She's just showing the time. Now, what I'm going to do is here, we've got a number and we've got an Arabic number and we've got a Roman number. Sorry, we've got a Roman number and an Arabic number. For this exercise, we're going to time how long it takes me to write this across the board to 10. So that means I've got to go 1, I, A, 2, 2, 2, B and so forth down to 10. Now, we're going to time it and we'll start. Ready? 3, 2, 1, go. So there's 1, I, A, 2, B, 3, 3, 3, 3, C, 4, 4, D, 5, 5, E, 6, 6, F, 7, 7, G, 8. What's that? H, 9 is 1 before 10 and I, 10 is X and J. Stop. How long? 30 seconds. 30 seconds? Yeah. Okay. So when I went across, this is me trying to think of different things the whole time, right? So we've got 30 seconds. So let's go 30 seconds there. Okay. All right. So now what we're going to do is I'm going to do this as a column. Okay. So now I'm just going to go down, down and down. So the same amount of, of Arabic and Roman numbers I'm going to write down, but I'm going to do it a different way. Instead of going, bouncing from a number to a Roman number to an Arabic number, I'm just going to do it in columns and go straight down. Okay. So you're ready? Here we go. And we're going to time it and get the thing ready. 3, 2, 1, go. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, I, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and then A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J. Stop. 19.38 seconds. 19.38 seconds. So look at that. I did it. I shaved off a third of the time. 30 seconds. 19.38 seconds. Now this exercise I just did this morning was suggested in this book. What does this prove? Well, it proves that if you just focus on one task at a time, just go get it done. Now move on to the next one. Get it done. Move on to the next one. You shave, in this particular instance, you shave 33% off of the time. Now for a few of might be double, it could be three quarters. It could be like speed up the process exponentially. This one you're distracted. You're moving from one project to the next project to the next project. You're moving from this project to this project to this project. Your mind is thinking. Your mind is starting to be like, oh, what's next? Oh, oh, oh. But as this, you're just like right. Finished. Move on to the next one. Okay. So it's a fabulous book, Scrum, the art of doing twice the work in half the time. Don't be boasting that you're a multitasker and you've got all these things on. I'm so busy at the moment. Oh, it's amazing. Because chances are you're not being as efficient or as productive as you can. So thank you for watching. If you want to see this again, you can go to my YouTube channel. I'm going to put this on here. It's just YouTube James Swannick. I'm run out of space here. Look at that. 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