Curated from: nature.com
Ideas, facts & insights covering these topics:
4 ideas
·4.64K reads
29
Explore the World's Best Ideas
Join today and uncover 100+ curated journeys from 50+ topics. Unlock access to our mobile app with extensive features.
The brain needs ready access to the information, plans, and procedures it will be using to solve complex problems. This collective task knowledge is known as a task set. But the task set is not always immediately available.
Returning to a hard task comes with a 'restart' cost where we first have to spend time and mental effort getting back into our task before making progress. It is then essential to create time and space for hard tasks.
266
1.86K reads
242
954 reads
When we multitask, the tasks use shared cognitive resources, such as working memory, It makes the tasks compete for the shared resource and interfere with one another.
246
852 reads
253
976 reads
IDEAS CURATED BY
Learn more about timemanagement with this collection
How to set clear objectives
How to follow up after a meeting
How to manage time effectively
Related collections
Similar ideas
5 ideas
12 ideas
Choking under pressure: WHY do humans tend to do it?
kids.frontiersin.org
7 ideas
How to Balance and Stop Wasting Your Time!
betterup.com
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates