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How To Fix Your Focus & Stop Procrastinating: Johann Hari

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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What Is the Harm of Interruption?

The average ten-year-old believes they can now follow seven forms of media at the same time. But we have fallen for a mass illusion, according to neuroscientist larry rosen. Constantly switching makes you less intelligent and more likely to make mistakes. When your brain is jammed up with all this switching, it's significantly less let to remember what happened. And when you just have time to think, your brain naturally wanders over things people have said to you in your life. That's actually what creativity is. It's when two ideas that have never been put together go together and pop. Hulett pack did a small experiment with workers who quit their jobs after being

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