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interruptions as brief as two to three seconds

It’s a digital literacy skill

paying attention

If I keep looking at my phone or my inbox or various websites, working feels a lot more tortuous. When I’m focused and making progress, work is actually pleasurable.”

monotasking is “something that needs to be practiced.

humans have finite neural resources that are depleted every time we switch between tasks

Not the same as mindfulness, which focuses on emotional awareness,

I just stuff my brain full of them because I can’t manage to do anything else,” she said. “The sad thing is that I don’t get any closer to deciding which one I like.”

That’s why you feel tired at the end of the day

Almost any experience is improved by paying full attention to it

The more we allow ourselves to be distracted from a particular activity, the more we feel the need to be distracted.

Research shows that just having a phone on the table is sufficiently distracting to reduce empathy and rapport between two people who are in conversation

After spending a few days hiking in the Arctic by myself, I was able to get all of them done in just a few days.”

Start by giving yourself just one morning a week to check in, and remind yourself what it feels like to do one thing at a time

Practice how you listen to people

Put down anything that’s in your hands and turn all of your attentional channels to the person who is talking