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# Can you monotask?
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2016/11/monotasking-digital-distraction/
- Published: 2016-11-03T11:00:18.000Z
- Updated: 2016-11-03T11:00:18.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: focus, productivity, workstyles

[*The New York Times:*](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/fashion/monotasking-drop-everything-and-read-this-story.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

> Not the same as mindfulness, which focuses on emotional awareness, monotasking is a 21st-century term for what your high school English teacher probably just called “paying attention.”

This is one of the reasons I work on my iPad so much – it makes it so much easier to monotask, and get more done.