Albert Einstein said: "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." This quote highlights a damning fault in our attention spans ...

There’s a reason your brain feels like a browser with 37 tabs open and a tiny fan whirring underneath. Constant pings, split screens, and mid-sentence pivots don’t make you faster — they splinter your ...

You’re reheating your coffee for the third time, half-listening to a conference call and taking inventory of your fridge to see what you can throw together for dinner. If this sounds familiar, you’re ...

I’m four years old. Coat, gloves, and hat on. It’s early spring. I’m watching and trying to help my dad in the garden. Among other things, he grew cabbages. He’s moaning because there are holes: ...

Whatever you feel like doing on your commute – or when you get to your desk, for that matter – pick one thing and one thing only. Why? Because our brains aren’t good at multitasking. Academics at ...

It was last week, when I almost walked into a bollard, that I decided to stop multitasking. I was pushing the pram while doing an online food shop on my phone, and I narrowly avoided bashing my head ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. You slaved your way through a boring degree; you forfeited your last ever long summer holiday for an internship ...

Do you struggle to focus and jump from task to task without feeling like you’re getting the chance to complete something before moving on to the next? While the ability to multitask is often hailed as ...