Multi-Tasking is Overrated

Multi-tasking has been all the rage for the past ten years.

Apparently a person should talk on the telephone, respond to e-mail, text to a friend, and hold a face-to-face conversation with an employee all at the same time.

Not only that the person should never say no to any project or request of his or her time.

If you want the fast path to being mediocre, keep doing ten things at once.

Superior performance comes from superior focus. If you're helping your child with homework, then focus on your child and the homework. If you're preparing a big speech for work, focus on the speech. If you're responding to e-mail, then just focus on e-mail.

Do one thing at a time extraordinarily well regardless of what that one thing is.