Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking

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I'm a designer and an educator.
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Sóc dissenyador i educador.
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I'm a multitasking person, and I push my students
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Sóc bo en la multitasca i empenyo els meus alumnes
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to fly through a very creative, multitasking design process.
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en un procés de disseny molt creatiu i de multitasca.
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But how efficient is, really, this multitasking?
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Però és la multitasca eficaç de debò?
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Let's consider for a while the option of monotasking.
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Pensem un moment en l'opció de la monotasca.
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A couple of examples.
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Un parell d'exemples.
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Look at that.
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Mireu.
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This is my multitasking activity result. (Laughter)
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El resultat de la meva multitasca. (Riures)
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So trying to cook, answering the phone, writing SMS,
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Proveu de cuinar, respondre al telèfon, escriure un SMS,
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and maybe uploading some pictures
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i potser penjar alguna foto
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about this awesome barbecue.
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de la magnífica barbacoa.
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So someone tells us the story about supertaskers,
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I algú ens parla dels supertascadors,
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so this two percent of people who are able
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i del 2% de la població que pot
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to control multitasking environment.
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gestionar la multitasca.
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But what about ourselves, and what about our reality?
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Però pensem en nosaltres i en la realitat.
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When's the last time you really enjoyed
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Quan vau gaudir per últim cop
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just the voice of your friend?
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només de la veu d'un amic?
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So this is a project I'm working on,
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Així que ara treballo en aquest projecte
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and this is a series of front covers
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(aquí en teniu unes imatges)
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to downgrade our super, hyper —
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per desactualitzar els nostres súper-hiper...
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(Laughter) (Applause)
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(Riures i aplaudiments)
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to downgrade our super, hyper-mobile phones
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per desactualitzar els nostres súper-hipermòbils
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into the essence of their function.
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i tornar-los a l'escencial.
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Another example: Have you ever been to Venice?
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Un altre exemple. Heu estat mai a Venècia?
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How beautiful it is to lose ourselves in these little streets
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Que bonic que és perdre's en aquells carrerons
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on the island.
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de l'illa.
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But our multitasking reality is pretty different,
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Però la multitasca ho fa un xic diferent
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and full of tons of information.
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amb informació infinita.
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So what about something like that
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Què us semblaria una cosa així
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to rediscover our sense of adventure?
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per revifar l'esperit aventurer?
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I know that it could sound pretty weird to speak about mono
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Sé que pot sonar estrany parlar de mono
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when the number of possibilities is so huge,
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quan hi ha tantes possibilitats,
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but I push you to consider the option of
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però considereu l'opció de centrar-vos
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focusing on just one task,
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en una sola tasca
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or maybe turning your digital senses totally off.
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o de desconnectar del tot els sentits digitals.
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So nowadays, everyone could produce his mono product.
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Avui tothom pot crear un producte mono.
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Why not? So find your monotask spot
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Per què no? Trobeu un buit al mercat de la monotasca
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within the multitasking world.
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en un món de multitasca.
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Thank you.
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Gràcies.
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(Applause)
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(Aplaudiments)
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