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394. Reclaim Your Intention: A Productivity Discussion with Chris Bailey

The ONE Thing

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The Effects of Multitasking on Productivity

The reason multitasking doesn't work is when we have to rapidly switch between things, there's something called attention residue. It gives us less of a cognitive capacity to deal with whatever it is that we intend to be doing in the moment. We're so bad at measuring our productivity because we tend to look at proxy measures for productivity like how busy we were at the end of the day.

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