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Your Brain at Work

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  • Жанна Карамергеновацитирует7 лет назад
    Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat up an average 2.1 hours a day. Another study, published in October 2005, found that employees spend an average of 11 minutes on a project before being distracted. After an interruption, it takes them 25 minutes to return to the original task, if they do at all. People switch activities every 3 minutes, either making a call, speaking with someone in their cubicle, or working on a document.
  • Martin Østervang Andersenцитирует7 лет назад
    It activates when you think about yourself and other people.
  • Martin Østervang Andersenцитирует7 лет назад
    The medial prefrontal cortex i
  • Martin Østervang Andersenцитирует7 лет назад
    One reason for your wandering attention is that the nervous system is constantly processing, reconfiguring, and reconnecting the trillions of connections in your brain each moment.
  • Martin Østervang Andersenцитирует7 лет назад
    Once you understand how much energy is involved in high-level thinking such as planning and creating,
  • Martin Østervang Andersenцитирует7 лет назад
    If you have to multitask, combine active thinking tasks only with automatic, embedded routines.
  • Martin Østervang Andersenцитирует7 лет назад
    Multitasking can be done easily if you are executing embedded routines.
  • Martin Østervang Andersenцитирует7 лет назад
    If you do multiple conscious tasks at once you will experience a big drop-off in accuracy or performance.
  • Martin Østervang Andersenцитирует7 лет назад
    Taking time to work out the right order to make decisions can save a lot of effort and energy overall, reducing unresolved issues in your queue. Reducing queues stops you from putting the same things on and off the stage over and over again, which gives you more energy, more space for other information, and overall more resources for focusing on other tasks.
  • Martin Østervang Andersenцитирует7 лет назад
    Decisions that get caught in queues, which you try to answer but fail to, are one of the great wasters of your brain’s resources.
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