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Victoria Halina

May 28, 2019

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The Science Behind Why We Should Avoid Multi-Tasking

verb: (of a person) dealing with more than one task at the same time

When going about our daily working lives, most of us have to learn how to juggle several work streams at once. But really, how effective is it to jam all of our tasks together?

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Victoria Halina

Victoria Halina

Explorer, starter, change agent. Polymath — you’ll tell by my writing. Founder at — single origin coffee in plastic free packaging.

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