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881: How to Find Focus, Fight Distraction, and Boost Your Attention Span with Dr. Gloria Mark

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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The Cost of Attention Switching

A lot of people, first of all, they're not aware that we're talking at the level of a task. If I'm sitting working in a home office, I get an knock on the door for my wife. She says, can you take care of the spider or this very heavy thing? It is entirely possible for me to do the thing, return within two minutes and return to my task in far less than 25 and a half minutes. But I have utilized some of my attention resource tank in executing those switches. Okay. Got you, but really it's a multi step journey. Yeah. And so Gloria, can you share with us what is misrepresented when this research is

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