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Gloria Mark - How to Find Focus, Fight Distraction, and Get More Done
Smart People Podcast
The Better We Manage Our Mental Resources, the Better Our Ability to Handle Distraction
When our mental resources are low, you can think of that as the time when we're very susceptible to being distracted. We don't have that defense up against distractions and it's very easy for us to do something that's easy. A study where we measured people's sleep the night before looked at this concept called sleep depth. It found there was a correlation with the time that people spend on easy activities the next day like Facebook. Why? Facebook is easy activity, doesn't involve mental resources,. People get distracted and go to Facebook because their mental resources are getting depleted through sleep depth.
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