Popular belief is to manage manage multiple things at the same time. But, this popular belief is making us unproductive and we don’t know it. Data suggests that we are at lowest low in productivity at work as we are doing multiple things and tasks at the same time. The reason is that when we focus on doing a lot of things we end up exhausting ourselves and feel overwhelmed. But our body and mind doesn’t like exhaustion and we stop putting efforts in work as our body and brain is tricked to save the energy. If we keep repeating the same pattern for a long time, it becomes hardwired in our brain in such a way that we can’t control it any further. This lets us sit idle for whole day looking busy and doing nothing. This makes you unproductive and often making you feel out of control or overwhelmed about the work, but you don’t care about it. You keep work pending until it becomes obsolete. And do tasks only which are easy or urgent.
This autopilot or the hardwiring of brain kills your productivity. And if you want to change it, you feel difficult to change it as it becomes your comfort zone. But, the only way to break this problem is to focus on one things. If you understand that our brain does not work like, we are programmed to work on a single task first and then on the other. If we tend to work on multiple things, we fail. So to win in life and become more productive in anything you want to do. It is important to focus on one thing. It is important to focus in such a way that you skip the other thoughts and wait for its completion first. You don’t juggle in between. When you finally complete that task, you would feel good because of the dopamine release. If you keep repeating focused takes often you will be able to change that hardwiring of multi task from your brain.
If you see into the lives of most popular succesful and productive people you will see that they know this trick. They always focus on one thing/one project first and then move to the other. This makes them use their 100% potential and 100% every on one thing. This makes them stand out from rest of the crowd. If you want to be successful too, start focusing on doing one things first and see the change in you.
Cheers! All the best.
Sarthak Jain
12 Nov 2025, 12:46 PM IST
