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From the Ted Talk by Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking

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I'm a dengiser and an educator. I'm a mskanutltiig person, and I push my students to fly through a very creative, multitasking design process. But how efficient is, really, this multitasking?

Let's consider for a while the oitopn of monotasking. A cpluoe of examples. Look at that. This is my multitasking activity result. (Laughter) So trying to cook, asiwennrg the phone, writing SMS, and maybe uploading some petcuirs about this aosmewe barbecue.

So someone tells us the sroty about supertaskers, so this two percent of people who are able to control multitasking environment. But what about ourselves, and what about our reality? When's the last time you really enjoyed just the voice of your friend? So this is a project I'm working on, and this is a series of front covers to downgrade our super, hyper — (Laughter) (Applause) to downgrade our super, hyper-mobile phones into the esncese of their function.

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I'm a ________ and an educator. I'm a ____________ person, and I push my students to fly through a very creative, multitasking design process. But how efficient is, really, this multitasking?

Let's consider for a while the ______ of monotasking. A ______ of examples. Look at that. This is my multitasking activity result. (Laughter) So trying to cook, _________ the phone, writing SMS, and maybe uploading some ________ about this _______ barbecue.

So someone tells us the _____ about supertaskers, so this two percent of people who are able to control multitasking environment. But what about ourselves, and what about our reality? When's the last time you really enjoyed just the voice of your friend? So this is a project I'm working on, and this is a series of front covers to downgrade our super, hyper — (Laughter) (Applause) to downgrade our super, hyper-mobile phones into the _______ of their function.

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  3. answering
  4. essence
  5. designer
  6. pictures
  7. multitasking
  8. option
  9. story

Original Text


I'm a designer and an educator. I'm a multitasking person, and I push my students to fly through a very creative, multitasking design process. But how efficient is, really, this multitasking?

Let's consider for a while the option of monotasking. A couple of examples. Look at that. This is my multitasking activity result. (Laughter) So trying to cook, answering the phone, writing SMS, and maybe uploading some pictures about this awesome barbecue.

So someone tells us the story about supertaskers, so this two percent of people who are able to control multitasking environment. But what about ourselves, and what about our reality? When's the last time you really enjoyed just the voice of your friend? So this is a project I'm working on, and this is a series of front covers to downgrade our super, hyper — (Laughter) (Applause) to downgrade our super, hyper-mobile phones into the essence of their function.

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