
#435: How to Achieve Hyperfocus
The Art of Manliness
The Cost of Switching Between Tasks
The biggest cost of constantly switching between things is if we could totally switch from one thing to the next, to the next without any fragments of the previous task occupying this working memory that we have. Certain things help you become a better custodian of this attentional space. The meditation is a very good example of one where it's been shown to lead us to have less attentional residue as we switch from onething to another. On average, we only focus on one thing for 40 seconds before we switch to doing something else.
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