From: NPR
Don’t Look Now! How Your Devices Hurt Your Productivity
NPR:
I’ll admit it. I even take my phone with me when I head to the restroom, to fire off a few texts. Or I’ll scroll through my email when I leave the office for lunch. My eyes are often glued to my phone from the moment I wake up, but I often reach the end of my days wondering what I’ve accomplished.
My productivity mystery was solved after reading The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High Tech World, by Dr. Adam Gazzaley, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, and Larry Rosen, a research psychologist and professor emeritus at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Their book explains why the brain can’t multitask, and why my near-obsessive efforts to keep up with email are likely lowering my productive output.
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