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HOW TO STOP MULTITASKING

DO YOU pride yourself on being a multitasker, skipping from one task to the next then back again at work, overseeing your kids’ homework while cooking dinner and stroking the dog with your foot?

You do? Well, you aren’t alone.

Many women – and, yes, multitasking is pretty much the territory of the tigress – believe they’re damn good at it.

Lockdown made it seem even more important to do a dozen things at once: home-schooling, working from home, shopping online, household duties – it was a multitasking mind-bend.

But get this: you can’t actually do it. Multitasking scrambles your brain, clouds your thoughts and leaves you incapable of doing any one thing to the best of

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