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Silence Your Technology
Say to an entrepreneur, “You should turn off your phone” and they think you are insane.
When you are working on something, turn off your email and put your devices across the room with the sound off. Shifting your attention from one task to another, as we do when we’re monitoring email while also reading a report and answering text messages, disrupts our concentration and saps our focus. Each time we return to our initial task, we use up valuable cognitive resources reorienting ourselves. Research shows that when we are deeply engrossed in an activity, even minor distractions can have a profound effect. The trouble, of course, is that multitasking is enjoyable.
Right now everyone is indulging in curiosity. Who knows what that next email, tweet or text message holds in store? Finding out provides immediate gratification but also causes more distractions and stress in times like this. In contrast, resisting distraction and staying on-task requires discipline and mental effort. It’s up to you to protect your cognitive resources. The more you do to minimize task-switching over the day, the more mental bandwidth you’ll have for activities that matter. And right now, every move matters.
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