From the course: Focus on What Matters and Minimize Distraction

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Minimize task switching

Minimize task switching

- I want to talk a little bit about the natural rhythm in terms of, you focus and then you stop focusing. And so, you've actually spelled out some timeframes, amounts of time associated with focus and then breaking. So, how do those times line up? - Well, the rhythm that we work in today is very choppy. It's very chopped up. So the one stat, I think, that shines brighter above all the others is one that looked at how long we focus on just one thing for in our work before we switched to doing something else. And the thing I love about this line of research, this was an impromptu study. And so they didn't bring a mouse into a lab and found that the mouse could only focus on drinking water for five seconds. They looked at people in an actual workplace, and they had logs on their computers, they set up cameras to look at how people focus throughout the day. And, they did well at first, but then they kind of settled into their…

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