So you see. So this is an exciting exercise. This one was brought to our attention by a good friend, Kathy Mendler. She brought this exercise to a time management workshop that we did. And it was awesome. And we want you to get ready because you're going to do it with us.
It's only going to take a couple minutes. So Emilio's doing it along with you, I'm running a timer, you need one piece of paper and a pen. So hit pause and grab those things. Okay. And if you want, I'm going to use the timer here, and we're going to do it together. So pause the video if you don't have these things ready and come back with us when you have the piece of paper.
The first thing that we want you to do, and I'm going to say start I'm going to start the timer is you're going to write out multitasking versus single tasking. And then on the next line, you're going to write the numbers one all the way to 27. Okay, so get ready. You've got your screen in front of you, Emilio you're set. That's it. Okay, ready, set.
Go. 15 1627 then I think you wrote 45 there, no 2425. Okay, so it's not meant to be hard. You don't need to rush yourself but Amelio stopped at 27 seconds. So were you close to where Emilio was I try my best. Did you stop earlier?
So okay, we've done this exercise. So what's the what's this have to do with multitasking? Well, the next thing that we're going to have you do that took 27 seconds, can you write that down? The next thing that we're going to have you do is start by alternating So on two lines, I want you to write the same thing, but you need to write m, and then one u and then two, l and then three, so on and so forth to the end of the sentence. And there's exactly 27 letters in the first sentence, which is why it's the numbers one to 27. So Emilio, I'm going to clear the board.
Are you ready to get going? It's gonna take whatever Okay, here we go. And start. You might notice a bit of frustration, as you try to remember how to spell. You kind of have to think about the world all the time. Yep, and the time on the board is 53 seconds.
So you have to move it closer If you want, I have to say that took forever, because I found myself having to think having to think about the world in the middle of the war because Okay, multi task, King, it was hard, we had a total so it was 53 seconds. So it was almost exactly double the amount of time that it took to write it out when you were just focused on writing one sentence at a time. So the point of this exercise is to help you understand that for our brains to be able to focus and to understand what they're doing. They really They've just run better when they're focused on one thing. So if you're ever debating whether or not multitasking and single tasking is is what's the winner, try and have a look at focusing on just one thing at a time.
Yeah, I just want to mention that when we do these, you know, in a workshop the first time, it's fine, but the second time you can hear in the audience. Ah, another frustration because it is really hard for the brain having to go back and forth. And that's what we do a lot of times with things so we can complete things properly and faster because we are just distracted all the time. Okay, so we hope you enjoyed that exercise. And we hope you enjoyed the course if you have questions, please make sure that you leave them and give us some feedback if you'd like to see more on a certain certain area and we're going to jump into more examples. And we'll see on the other side so you