It's been well documented that our attention operates in a spotlight sort of way. We can handle immediate tasks better one at a time. Of course, our brain is al

It's been well documented that our attention operates in a spotlight sort of way. We can handle immediate tasks better one at a time. Of course, our brain is always working and new tasks and ideas start to form on the fringe and we being the impulsive humans we are would rather work on something new and different. This is purely because the variety of tasks is more exhilarating than the productivity and accomplishment of even one task. Multitasking should just be finishing one task well enough and having the long-term focus to know what task should be tackled upon next.