Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Thu-Huong Ha

Translator: Nika Kotnik Reviewer: Mojca Miklavec

I'm a designer and an educator.

Sem oblikovalec in učitelj.

I'm a multitasking person, and I push my students

Sem oseba, ki dela več stvari hkrati in svoje študente vzpodbujam,

to fly through a very creative, multitasking design process.

da letijo skozi zelo kreativen, večopravilen proces oblikovanja.

But how efficient is, really, this multitasking?

A kako učinkovita je, zares, ta večopravilnost?

Let's consider for a while the option of monotasking.

Razmislimo o možnosti eno-opravilnosti za nekaj časa.

A couple of examples.

Nekaj primerov.

Look at that.

Poglejte to.

This is my multitasking activity result. (Laughter)

To je rezultat moje večopravilnosti. (Smeh)

So trying to cook, answering the phone, writing SMS,

Poskušal sem kuhati, se oglašati na telefon, pisati SMSe,

and maybe uploading some pictures

in mogoče naložiti nekaj slik

about this awesome barbecue.

s tega čudovitega žara.

So someone tells us the story about supertaskers,

Nekdo nam pove zgodbo o teh super-opravilnežih,

so this two percent of people who are able

o teh dveh odstotkih ljudi, ki so zmožni

to control multitasking environment.

nadzorovati večopravilno okolje.

But what about ourselves, and what about our reality?

Ampak, kaj pa mi sami, kaj pa naša resničnost?

When's the last time you really enjoyed

Kdaj ste nazadnje res uživali

just the voice of your friend?

samo v glasu svojega prijatelja?

So this is a project I'm working on,

To je projekt, na katerem delam,

and this is a series of front covers

in to je serija pokrovov za sprednjo stran

to downgrade our super, hyper —

za degradacijo naših super, hiper-

(Laughter) (Applause)

(Smeh) (Aplavz)

to downgrade our super, hyper-mobile phones

za degradacijo naših super, hiper-mobilnih telefonov

into the essence of their function.

v bistvo njihove funkcije.

Another example: Have you ever been to Venice?

Drug primer: Ste kdaj bili v Benetkah?

How beautiful it is to lose ourselves in these little streets

Kako lepo se je izgubiti v teh malih uličicah

on the island.

na otoku.

But our multitasking reality is pretty different,

Ampak naša večopravilna resničnost je precej drugačna,

and full of tons of information.

in polna ton informacij.

So what about something like that

Kaj pa nekaj takega,

to rediscover our sense of adventure?

da bi zopet odkrili naš smisel za dogodivščino?

I know that it could sound pretty weird to speak about mono

Vem, da lahko zveni zelo čudno, ko govorim o enem opravilu,

when the number of possibilities is so huge,

ko je število možnosti tako veliko,

but I push you to consider the option of

ampak vzpodbujam vas, da premislite o možnosti

focusing on just one task,

osredotočanja na eno samo opravilo,

or maybe turning your digital senses totally off.

ali pa da morda popolnoma izključite svoje digitalne čute.

So nowadays, everyone could produce his mono product.

In dandanes lahko vsakdo naredi svoj enooporavilni produkt.

Why not? So find your monotask spot

Zakaj pa ne? Poiščite torej svoje enoopravilno mesto

within the multitasking world.

v tem večopravilnem svetu.

Thank you.

Hvala.

(Applause)

(Aplavz)