Brain Food: Loyal to Distractions
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Brain Food: Loyal to Distractions
This includes, crucially, checking e-mail, as well as browsing work-related websites.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
While talking to a friend earlier this week, I realized that many of my best projects started out as what seemed like a distraction from more pressing work – ignoring my email inbox to read an interesting thread on Twitter or abandonning a work presentation for an hour to grab a coffee with a colleague.
These so-called distractions would plant the s... See more
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Superhuman
knowledge workers operate as a state of “divided attention,” in which the mind rarely gets closure before switching tasks, creating a muddle of competing activations and inhibitions that all add up to reduce our performance.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
The objective? avoid mental drag"Imagine that your brain is a computer. At the beginning of the day, your brain powers up and you have 100 percent of your computer memory available to use on your life. The only problem is that every time you add a task to your to-do list, a little bit of your computer memory goes toward that task."
James Clear • Never Check Email Before Noon (And Other Thoughts on Doing Your Best Work)
