You want to make sure that you're doing the essential work of your life in those periods where you have optimal mental attention available. And we don't want to intrude on those times by doing things like social media or email or what I call subservient work. But we also find for most people they can't come to work and just be ramped up ready to go. It takes people time to slide into that state of peak attention. Even people who are by all measures extremely productive, that's how they behave.
Do you ever feel like there's something in the modern world that fries your brain, that leaves you in red brain, where you're just so pulled in a million directions all the time that it's hard to actually give attention to what's essential? Well, in part two of my conversation with Dr. Gloria Mark, we get into some specific questions you can ask yourself to be able to assess how you are doing and what you can do to increase, and then protect, your peak attention hours.
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