The irony of multitasking is that it’s exhausting: when you’re doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You’re also cheating yourself because you’re not doing anything excellently.

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- Alexander Graham Bell

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"If you can’t do something, then don’t. Focus on what you can."

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