With technology today allowing us to tend to multiple tasks at the same time, we have all fallen into the trap of believing ourselves brilliant multitaskers when the hard truth is that most of us are terrible at it. By Gary Epstein While we all want to believe ourselves brilliant multitaskers, the truth is that our brains are simply not wired to focus on more than one task at a time. In fact, neuroscientists have proven that while we can’t actually multitask per se, what we can do is to shift our focus from one task to the next with astonishing speed. Switching between tasks, however, does not make you a multitasker and even though you might think that you’re paying attention to everything around you, you’re actually not. Splitting our focus between tasks causes us to lose our train of thought, to have to redo work, and to erroneously assume that we have completed a task, only to realise that we have overlooked a critical element. If this is you, we suggest you re-evaluate your w...