What Steven Bartlett has said about Human multitasking

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 15, 2026

Steven Bartlett, British entrepreneur and host of The Diary Of A CEO podcast, 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

Bartlett concludes from the exercise that switching between two task types could cost him around 60% of his productivity.
“So on a daily basis, theoretically, I'm losing potentially 60% of my productivity, theoretically, just by switching between two different types of tasks at once”
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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.