6. Just Because You’re “Busy” Doesn’t Mean You’re Accomplishing Something
“忙碌”并不代表你完成了什么事情

If you like to brag about how great you are at multitasking, stop it, because you are only kidding yourself. Changing tasks without rhyme or reason is wasting your productivity, stressing you out, and possibly causing you to make mistakes.
如果你喜歡吹噓自己多么擅長同時處理多項任務，那還是算了吧，別自欺欺人了。毫無節拍或理由地換任務只會浪費精力、徒增壓力，甚至使你犯錯。

It will probably take you longer to complete two tasks that you are switching back-and-forth between than it would to complete each one separately. If you want to save time, instead of multitasking, try grouping similar tasks together. Have a bunch of e-mails you need to send? Do them all at once.
相比一次只完成一個任務而言，同時反復處理兩個任務或許要花更多功夫。如果你想節約時間，與其同時處理多個任務，不如嘗試分批處理類似任務。是不是要發多封郵件？那就一次發出去吧。

Have an article or essay you need to write? Get it done before moving onto anything else. Different tasks require different mind-sets, so focus on one thing at a time. Being “busy” does not guarantee that you are doing something useful (it probably just means you are doing a lot of things badly).
有文章或論文要寫？寫好了再做其他事吧。不同任務需要不同的思維狀態，所以，最好一次只專注一件事。“忙忙碌碌”并不表示你在有效做事，或許你只是在焦頭爛額斡旋于多個事情中罷了。