The Importance of Context Switching

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The ability to keep doing things with your mind without getting exhausted is really demanding. Having to check an inbox quickly, again and again and again is that cognitive equivalent of running up 10 flights of stairs. When you when you cut it short in the middle of it and repeat it again and again, it's a disaster for our human brain.

Cal Newport is the author of Deep Work and So Good They Can’t Ignore You and Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Cal's new book is A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload. In this conversation Cal talks about the real problem with modern knowledge work, how email and other tech plays into it, how the problem started and how to start getting ahead in the new world of knowledge work that is coming soon.

Tweet or DM me your questions for an upcoming Q & A episode with Cal!

Make sure to check out Cal's article 'When Did Productivity Become Personal?' for further reading on this topic.

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