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In a New York Times article about [her new] book, Ms. [Winifred] Gallagher recommends starting the work day focusing on your most important task for a solid 90-minute block. After that, you can take a break, say, by answering email, making calls or even sipping caffeine, which also helps attention, before returning to your task. Until that break, however, be disciplined about not being distracted by anything else for those first 90 minutes; it can take the brain some 20 minutes to “reboot” after an interruption.
Time used up surfing the Web or checking Facebook is gone forever. “People don’t understand that attention is a finite resource, like money,” Ms. Gallagher told the Times. “Do you want to invest your cognitive cash on endless Twittering or Net surfing or couch potatoing?”
Ms. Gallagher also recommends ...
Time used up surfing the Web or checking Facebook is gone forever. “People don’t understand that attention is a finite resource, like money,” Ms. Gallagher told the Times. “Do you want to invest your cognitive cash on endless Twittering or Net surfing or couch potatoing?”
Ms. Gallagher also recommends ...
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