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159: Cal Newport | Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Are You a Good Multi Tasker?

People used to say, i'm a good multi tasker. In the early two thousands, the research became kind of clear. Snuck up on us is that people thought they were single tasking. So what most knowledge workers are really doing is every five or ten minutes, a quick check of a tab or a phone,. which puts them in a persistent state of reduced cognitive capacity. It's almost like they're taking a reverse neotropicei want to be dumber right? I want my mind not the work as well.

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