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Episode 664: The Art of Doing One Thing at a Time

Grace & Grit Podcast · Sep 19, 2026 · 7:29

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We pride ourselves on multitasking.

But the research on this is unambiguous: what we call multitasking is actually task-switching. And we do everything worse when our attention is divided.

In this episode I make the case for the radical, countercultural act of doing one thing at a time. Not as a productivity strategy but as a quality-of-life one. Because when your attention is split, you are never fully anywhere. You are doing everything halfway. Food tastes different when you are not also reading something. A conversation goes somewhere real when you are not half-checking your phone. Work that felt resistant opens up when you give it your full attention.

Single-tasking is not slower. It just feels that way at first. What it actually produces is a better experience of being alive. And that is the whole point.

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