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I am a Multitasking God - Are You?

by E. Brian Rose
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theIf one more person tells me that I have to do one thing at a time, I think I am going to choke them. I started multitasking girlfriends in high school and never looked back. I now write blog posts while watching TV, reading Google News, checking the latest celebrity gossip, and eating pizza. Screw you to all the time management junkies out there. You're owned by a clock.

P.S. The multitasking girlfriend thing didn't always work out so well, but the work stuff works out great for me.
#god #multitasking
  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Yes, I am a multi-tasking God...

    And before I got married, my wife thought I was a God in other respects as well... :p

    Get your mind out of the gutter... I did not mean that...
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  • Profile picture of the author weblink29
    I work with a bunch of techs. I've met people who do tech support talking to cusotmers on the phone and code C++ at the same time. At the very least most of the techs I know watch Netflix, read a book, or play video games while they are working....and I don't mean they stop working while doing it either
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    Nothing to see here folks.....move along.

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  • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
    Originally Posted by Craig Desorcy View Post

    Do you guys multitask when writing copy or anything else that
    takes an extreme amount of focus?
    You are making the assumption that I am capable of extreme amounts of focus.

    Ok, there are certainly projects that require my full attention. Writing sales copy or chapters for my upcoming book certainly fall into that category.
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    Founder of JVZoo. All around good guy :)

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  • Profile picture of the author garyv
    Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose View Post

    theIf one more person tells me that I have to do one thing at a time, I think I am going to choke them. I started multitasking girlfriends in high school and never looked back. I now write blog posts while watching TV, reading Google News, checking the latest celebrity gossip, and eating pizza. Screw you to all the time management junkies out there. You're owned by a clock.

    P.S. The multitasking girlfriend thing didn't always work out so well, but the work stuff works out great for me.
    It all works out well, until you click on the wrong tab to do your search for "frisky farm animals", and later realize that your entire aweber list now knows that you have a fetish for fur...
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  • Profile picture of the author owenlee
    I like this part "multitasking girlfriend"...lol

    my wallet also multitask...haha
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarevok
    show me a multi-threaded marketer, and I'll show you a success story
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  • Profile picture of the author JimmyRose
    I even code while watching TV these days. If the girl tries to talk to me though, she may as well talk to a brick wall.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      I have 145 skype chats open at the moment. A couple of those have more than 100 peeps in them.

      WF on here, TV is on, just had the diswasher going (does that count?) Eating some planters dry roasted nuts and listening to TMN too at the same time.

      I can't perpetually do this kind of thing, but when drinking it seems to be easier. Did I mention I'm having one now?

      lol
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael D Forbes
    Introducing E. Brian Rose - The human dual quad-core on triple 27" monitors
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  • Profile picture of the author murphyslaw
    I cannot multitask at all. I completely get lost in what I am trying to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author Christian Chan
    Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose View Post

    theIf one more person tells me that I have to do one thing at a time, I think I am going to choke them. I started multitasking girlfriends in high school and never looked back. I now write blog posts while watching TV, reading Google News, checking the latest celebrity gossip, and eating pizza. Screw you to all the time management junkies out there. You're owned by a clock.

    P.S. The multitasking girlfriend thing didn't always work out so well, but the work stuff works out great for me.
    So you did one in the morning, another in the afternoon, and another one at night?
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Originally Posted by Craig Desorcy View Post

    Do you guys multitask when writing copy or anything else that takes an extreme amount of focus?

    Generally no. I will stay to task for 3-4 hours, except when I cannot find the words. Then I will escape for a few minutes and come back refreshed and re-energized.

    When I need the escape, I often find myself here at the forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author xohaibx
    It's better to be a laser focused rabbit, who ultimately wins the race
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  • Profile picture of the author scsheldon33
    Originally Posted by Craig Desorcy View Post

    Do you guys multitask when writing copy or anything else that
    takes an extreme amount of focus?

    I'm going to side with Time Magazine on this one
    genM: The Multitasking Generation - TIME

    And say if multitasking is working for you, more power to you.

    If not, get help because it's proven to NOT be the way to go for
    a huge amount of people in business.


    Craig
    It's so hard for me to multi-task when I'm writing...needs 100% focused
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    This must be a guy thread. Women multi-task. Period. We've had to do it for so long now that it's just built into our brains to be able to do it. Comes from having to cook, clean, and watch kids all at the same time.

    Do I multi-task when I write? You bet I do. I often write several articles at once - a lot of tabs open, several wordpads, write one opening paragraph, then another, then another, then go back and write another chunk of the first one, then the next - and don't be surprised if I'm listening to a webinar or listening to a documentary on the subject for one of the articles, or another one I have to do shortly. On top of that, I have to clean house, so develop sentences while dusting or vacuuming.

    I'm not sure how anyone does just one thing at a time without outsourcing and having a maid and cook to boot.
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