What happens inside a laser-focused brain
The great multitasking lie
Finding flow from monks to master creators
Building your personal distraction shield
YOUR GOAL
Master of The lost art of doing just one thing
007skaty The Multitasking Lie
We only switch back and forth / (Oh-oh, we're losing time) / Just a beautiful illusion, yeah / (Yeah, we only switch back and forth)
007skaty Incomplete work occupies your working memory, creating attention residue that worsens your performance on a second task.
007skaty A dark neon infographic displays holographic data streams representing cognitive switching costs.
007skaty Guide your train past noisy distractions to learn how singular focus keeps you on track.
Aviation focus: In aviation, the Sterile Cockpit Rule bans non-essential conversation below 10,000 feet to keep pilots singularly focused during critical flight phases.
The performance of multiple tasks at the same time. The National Safety Council debunked multitasking, showing distracted drivers miss up to 50 percent of their surroundings.
What is the term for the mental friction that occurs when your brain must deactivate old rules and load new ones to switch tasks?
The temporary 10-point IQ drop caused by digital distractions in the King's College study was twice as large as the impact of which condition?
In what year did the computer company IBM coin the word 'multitasking' to describe computer processing?
A 2005 study at King's College London found that workers distracted by emails and calls suffered a temporary drop of how many points in IQ?
What is the term coined by Dr. Leroy for the leftover attention that stays glued to a previous task when you try to switch to a new one?