Students set timers that went off at random points throughout the day. They had to mark down on a scale what their level of mental resources were, how challenged and how engaged they were. "When we probed people, when we did this study in the workplace, we actually probed people 18 times throughout the day," he says.
Do you ever feel like there's something in the modern world that fries your brain, that leaves you in red brain, where you're just so pulled in a million directions all the time that it's hard to actually give attention to what's essential? Well, in part two of my conversation with Dr. Gloria Mark, we get into some specific questions you can ask yourself to be able to assess how you are doing and what you can do to increase, and then protect, your peak attention hours.
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