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To do two things at once is to do neither.

— Publilius Syrus

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Splitting your attention between two tasks means neither gets proper effort. This aphorism claims that divided focus yields nothing of real value, so a person achieves more by committing fully to one thing at a time than by juggling both and finishing neither well.

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