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Attention Skills: How to Gain Productivity

The Academic Life

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Taking a Break From Your Work Can Support Cognitive Activity

Research shows that we can sustain our attention in a meaningful way anywhere from 20 minutes to 75 minutes on average. What you're doing is exactly the right thing, some sort of physical movement. We need to pay attention like you do when we start n reading the same paragraph over and still realizing that we don't know what it said. That is a really important signal to pay attention to and then to do some other type of activity.

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