How about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner together? 😋

Makes sense?

It took me 20 years to understand this.

Multi-tasking and doing multiple things are not the same.

Now, if you are someone who is curious and hungry to know all that there is, you know what I am talking about.

Just because you have everything, breakfast, lunch, and dinner in front of you, it doesn’t make sense to have it in one go…

After experimenting with multiple learning patterns and styles, I have finally come up with this realization:

Multi-tasking while learning some new topic or skill is not a good idea.

Jumping from one topic to the next might give you breadth, but not depth. This creates an illusion of learning.

Depth doesn’t have to be on an expert level, but just enough so that when you move on to something new, you are able to connect the dots.

I mean:

While learning, it’s always better to have breakfast properly. Be at peace. Chew it nicely. Give it time to absorb. Do something cool with the energy produced, then come back and have lunch. Repeat.

However, sometimes you are forced to have a brunch. You can’t help but multi-task. Especially in startups, you have no choice.

It’s not that multitasking is bad. It’s essential to understand when to multitask.

Multi-tasking is the most effective when implementing things. Once, we have individually put time into learning different things, we can easily implement those simultaneously.

Basically, reject multitasking while learning.

Learn for depth. Implement at breadth.