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How To Fix Your Focus & Stop Procrastinating: Johann Hari

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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The Impact of Distractions on IQ According to Studies

Being constantly interrupted can lower a person's intelligence quotient (IQ) by 10 points which is double the negative impact of smoking marijuana./nHulett Packard conducted a small experiment and found that people who were interrupted had 10 IQ points lower than those who were not./nDistractions can take up to 20 minutes to recover from and get back to the original task./nFocusing on one task without interruptions can increase productivity and intelligence.

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