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Regain Control of Your Focus and Attention with Researcher Gloria Mark

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Shifting Attention Harms Performance

People make more errors when they switch their attention, he says. A second reason is that it harms performance in the sense that it takes more time to get any single task done. Shifting attention also creates stress and increases blood pressure for people who are already stressed.

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