365 Days of Productivity

How to Practice Extreme Single Tasking to Boost Your Productivity

Why doing one thing at a time is the secret to higher productivity

Carter Tinsley
Cambium
Published in
5 min readJan 8, 2020

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It’s the awkward moment when you realize that a goldfish has a longer attention span than you. You’re at your desk, furiously tapping away at the keyboard, trying to finish your report on time when something catches your eye. It’s that tab, a webpage about influencing people that you were looking at last night. You jump down the rabbit hole, arms legs, and all.

How many browser tabs do you have open right now? I bet it’s a lot. I’m going to show you how to change that, and how to amplify your productivity with extreme single-tasking. Come and join me.

What is Extreme Single Tasking?

Extreme single-tasking is focusing on one task with the entirety of your being and neutralizing any and all potential distractions. Like a thoroughbred stallion hurtling down the track at full gallop, blinkered, with only the finish line in sight. You must be that stallion.

At a practical level, single-tasking is timed-sessions of working in a state of flow. The technique allows you to produce large amounts of high-quality work in a short space of time. Flow…

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Carter Tinsley
Cambium

Writer • Editor • Father • Life-hacker • Poet • Entrepreneur • Productivity & Mindfulness Coach