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174: Deep Work, with Cal Newport

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How Contact Shifting Impacts Your Day

The human brain is wired to focus on one thing at a time and is relatively slow to shift from one target attention to another. When we see so many different contexts, it can only focus on one at a time. We end up just trying to hunt and pack and find emails that we can answer really easily or go on social media. Our brain is quite simply muddled. It's in between cognitive context constantly. So what do you think is the net result of the increased technology, but the loss of flow? How much did we really lose by embracing the power of the machines, but not really being able to direct it where it's supposed to?

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