But just a few months ago, in a blog post on the Harvard Business Review, the University of Bergen published findings that men and women are “equally bad” at multitasking. Cited on Inc.com, MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller explained that our brains “are not wired to multitask well… when people think they’re multitasking, they’re actually just switching from one task to another very rapidly. If you’re finding it difficult to put the blinkers on, here are a few tips to help you break the bad habit of trying to multitask. Prioritising is key to not falling back into the multitasking habit. Schedule multiple breaksTrying to focus from 9am until lunch time doesn’t really work - that’s around 4 hours with no break.

Source: Forbes January 22, 2019 06:11 UTC