Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Thu-Huong Ha

Translator: Shelley Tsang 曾雯海 Reviewer: Thu-Huong Ha

我係一位設計師同埋教育家

我係一個一心多用嘅人， 我成日鼓勵我嘅學生

去體驗富有創意又多功能嘅設計過程。

I'm a designer and an educator.

但係講真，一心多用可以幾有效率？

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

等我地稍為思考一下專心一致呢個選項。

to fly through a very creative, multitasking design process.

舉幾個例子。

But how efficient is, really, this multitasking?

睇下呢個。

呢個就係我一心多用嘅結果。 （笑聲）

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

我一路燒烤、一路講電話、發信息，

A couple of examples.

仲上傳左幾張超讚嘅

燒烤相。

Look at that.

This is my multitasking activity result. (Laughter)

不過，總係有人講起多功能超人嘅故事 ，

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

呢百分之二嘅超人的確可以

and maybe uploading some pictures

掌握一心多用嘅情境。

about this awesome barbecue.

So someone tells us the story about supertaskers,

但係我地得唔得架？現實中得唔得架？

so this two percent of people who are able

你上一次單純只係因為聽到朋友嘅聲音

而覺得開心係幾耐以前嘅事？

to control multitasking environment.

所以，呢個就係我宜家做嘅計劃

But what about ourselves, and what about our reality?

呢個係一系列嘅手機前殻

When's the last time you really enjoyed

just the voice of your friend?

要將我地嘅超超級 —

So this is a project I'm working on,

（笑聲）（掌聲）

and this is a series of front covers

超超多功能手機降級

to downgrade our super, hyper —

變返原有嘅單純功能。

另一個例子係，你有無去過威尼斯？

(Laughter) (Applause)

果啲島上嘅小街

to downgrade our super, hyper-mobile phones

靚到令人忘我。

into the essence of their function.

但係我地一心多用嘅現實唔係咁啦，

Another example: Have you ever been to Venice?

資訊多到爆。

How beautiful it is to lose ourselves in these little streets

所以點解唔重拾

on the island.

我地嘅冒險精神呢？

But our multitasking reality is pretty different,

我知道係呢個咩都可以有嘅時代入面，

and full of tons of information.

（大約有95萬種應用程式比人下載）

So what about something like that

to rediscover our sense of adventure?

講專心一致，聽起嚟實在有啲奇怪。

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

但係我勸你試下一次只專注一件事，

when the number of possibilities is so huge,

或乾脆將你嘅數位感官全部熄左佢。

but I push you to consider the option of

宜家個個都可以整自己嘅單一產品，點解唔試下？

focusing on just one task,

or maybe turning your digital senses totally off.

就係呢個一心多用嘅世界入面，

搵一個令自己專心一致嘅點啦！

So nowadays, everyone could produce his mono product.

謝謝。

（掌聲）

Why not? So find your monotask spot

within the multitasking world.

Thank you.

(Applause)