Imagine you're deep into something you love—maybe hyperfocused, maybe just finally in the groove. Suddenly you need to move on to something totally different. Prefer to listen rather than read? Press ...

Switching from one task to another isn't always simple, especially when your brain likes things to stay the same. For many neurodivergent people, moving between jobs, chores, or even ideas can feel ...

We pride ourselves on doing more in less time, juggling emails, decisions, and deadlines as if productivity were a ...

Our minds are simply not designed follow multiple trains of thought simultaneously, and so task switching comes at immediate, and lasting, time and productivity costs. The solution is to prepare for ...

The research analyzed over 300,000 transplant surgeries from 2007-19 and provides causal evidence that task switching — ...

From Pacific Standard magazine: "We all call it 'multitasking,' but psychologists insist that's a misnomer. Since we can't actually focus on more than one thing at a time, the skill is really 'task ...