What Sahar Yousef has said about Human multitasking

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 15, 2026

Sahar Yousef, Cognitive neuroscientist at UC Berkeley and founder of the Becoming Superhuman Lab, specializing in productivity and cognitive neuroplasticity, has been quoted on Human multitasking once in 1 episode of The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, most recently on October 15, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Yousef says the average knowledge worker now wastes over two hours a day bouncing between screens and tasks.
“over two hours a day is the estimated average now for the average knowledge worker just bouncing between screens and different tasks”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar Yousef (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 2:05:42

Episodes

Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar Yousef
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 h 14 min
Steven Bartlett and neuroscientist Sahar Yousef discuss phone addiction, tech design that hijacks attention, focus sprints, chronotypes, multitasking costs, and AI's threat to independent thinking.

Others on Human multitasking

Steven Bartlett · 1 quote

Sahar Yousef on other topics

Persuasive technology and engagement design · 3 quotes
Artificial intelligence · 2 quotes
Focus sprint · 2 quotes
Smartphone addiction · 1 quote
Chronotype · 1 quote
Rumination · 1 quote
Brain breaks and boredom · 1 quote
Task prioritization (MITs and LITs) · 1 quote