From the course: Learn to Control Your Attention
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Switch tasking harms productivity
From the course: Learn to Control Your Attention
Switch tasking harms productivity
- Well, so you mentioned psychological research, could you share some striking, you know, stories or studies or evidence bits that kind of layout, but you drop some numbers already, which is intriguing in terms of like the state of play right now, and then what's really possible if we, you know, take on some practices to become unhackable. - Absolutely, so right now we have so many things going at us that a lot of us have adopted the lie of multitasking, and people get confused about multitasking. They say surely I can mow the lawn and listen to an audio book, see, that's multitasking. Multitasking we're actually talking about doing two cognitive things at the same time. And so therefore it'd be like me trying to do a podcast with you right now and check an email, and, you know, check my Instagram. When we do that, it's not multitasking, it's switched tasking. Our IQ drops 40 points. We do what's called attention…
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Technology is hacking our attention5m 53s
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Switch tasking harms productivity1m 57s
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Three keys to better attention: Idea, focus, flow1m 58s
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Set deadlines to increase urgency4m 21s
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Know your deepest desire4m 9s
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Enthusiasm and passion require suffering3m 23s
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Free up your brain with do, delegate, or dump4m 46s
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Prime for flow with sleep and exercise3m 23s
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