![]() That is what is called doing two things at once, or three things, and every thing at once, which is much the same as doing nothing at all.ĭoing one thing at a time means that we finish whatever we begin, before we attempt anything else. But what is it to do one thing at a time? … Is it doing one thing at a time to begin to do something one moment, and the next moment to begin something else, and the third moment to take up what we left unfinished the first moment, and the fourth moment to take up what we left the second moment? In other words, is it doing one thing at a time if we change our employment every moment? No. It is as impossible…to do two things at once, as to be in two places at the same time. ![]() A 19th-century caricature of composer and cellist Jacques Offenbach doing more than one thing at a time What is it to do one thing at a time?Ĭonsider this admonition from an 1824 publication directed at America’s youth. ![]()
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