You can't get into a real flow state with that kind of distraction, and you're not going to accomplish much of anything either. I think blocking out time to concentrate on one activity is, it is a critical step. Even pre penemic, people were checking emal 74 times to day,. That they were switching tasks on average at least once every ten minutes. And so the solution to that, you've argued, is to really think carefully about our time and how we use ours.
Psychologist and writer Adam Grant used every second of his day to the fullest... until he was struck by feelings of emptiness and stagnation. His sleep patterns changed, his productivity dipped, he found himself breaking his own rules by aimlessly watching Netflix. Adam decided this listless middle ground between depression and flourishing was "languishing" and he needed to escape it fast.
The author of the #1 NYT bestselling book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (www.adamgrant.net/thinkagain), and host of TED's Work Life podcast (https://tedtalks.social/WLAdam) says we ignore this "meh" feeling at our peril and explains how he fought back against languishing...with a game of Mario Kart.
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