Research Proves Your Brain Needs Breaks
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Research Proves Your Brain Needs Breaks
What is impossible, however, is concentrating on two tasks at once. Multitasking forces your brain to switch back and forth very quickly from one task to another.
This wouldn’t be a big deal if the human brain could transition seamlessly from one job to the next, but it can’t. Multitasking forces you to pay a mental price each time you interrupt one... See more
This wouldn’t be a big deal if the human brain could transition seamlessly from one job to the next, but it can’t. Multitasking forces you to pay a mental price each time you interrupt one... See more
James Clear • The Myth of Multitasking: Why Fewer Priorities Leads to Better Work
Studies show we can work for an average of just forty seconds in front of a computer before we’re either distracted or interrupted. (Needless to say, we do our best work when we attend to a task for a lot longer than forty seconds.)
Chris Bailey • Hyperfocus
One study showed that it takes twenty-three minutes to recover from disruptions like your phone at work.3 (Knowing this has definitely cut down on the number of texts I send out during the workday.)
Tiffany Shlain • 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
OSH recommends that all computer users have a micro-pause every three minutes.
Dinah Bradley • Breathe, Stretch & Move: Get Rid of Workplace Stress
One study at the University of Loughborough found that after reading an email, which took two minutes on average, it then took people an average of sixty-eight seconds to return to their work and remember what they were doing.45 It is estimated that unnecessary interruptions and the time needed to get our brain back on track after being distracted
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
brain activity while watching was different to that while reading. In front of the television more slower alpha waves were recorded, suggesting a relaxed frame of mind. When reading a magazine, by contrast, the brain waves were dominated by faster, attention-related beta waves.
Dr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
Recent research discovered a startling facet of life—brief periods during which consciousness is absent while the body carries on its well-rehearsed duties: driving, doing the dishes, or reading a long and uninspiring office memo. To an observer, everything looks normal while the subject is, in fact, zoned out. During these episodes of mind blankin
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