Research shows that even brief mental blocks created by shifting between tasks can cost as much as 40% of someone’s productive time, the equivalent of dropping 10 IQ points from our cognitive ...
In a world that rewards speed, slowing down and focusing on one task at a time may be the real cognitive advantage.
It’s such an invisible problem that you might not even notice it, yet we are all guilty of it, giving in to distractions that disguise themselves as work. Context switching is a big culprit behind one ...