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Limited attention
Your attention is a limited resource and you have to be careful where you are spending it.
If you choose to give away 80 percent of your attention to meetings, you will have 20 percent of your attention just for dealing with a few emails feeling overwhelmed.
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Fixes for your attention management issues
- Make tiny changes to trick your brain and create additional periods of attention (for example, move to a different part of the room every hour).
- Keep moving and switch tasks every 30-60 minutes.
- Get outside and go for a quick walk.
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Schedule your work
... based on your attention level.
Save difficult and important task for when your attention level is proactive, leave the intense but easier stuff for those active attention times, and try to save up the easy or dull stuff for when you're capable of little else.
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Boss-mode vs worker-mode
Knowledge workers usually have to play 2 roles at the same time - the boss and the worker: They have to choose what their work is (boss-mode) and they have to do the actual work (work-mode), for example.
This situation has the potential to create conflict an...
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Extra pockets of attention
- Take advantage of the periods when you're walking somewhere and make some phone calls. You can use your desk time for other tasks.
- Keep both a physical and a digital file of reading materials. Take advantage of the time spent commuting or in the waiting rooms for your doc...
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Levels of attention
- Proactive attention: you are fully focused and prepared for your most important decisions/ most complex tasks.
- Active attention: you're plugged in, but also easily distracted.
- Inactive attention: you're likely to really struggle with complex or difficu...
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- Avoid unnecessary meetings, as many meetings could be some form of excuse for the organizer to look busy and productive.
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Deciding on Your Impactful Work
It’s an incredible habit to take even a few moments at the beginning of your day (or the end of the day before) to give some thought to where you’d like to concentrate your attention.
Ask yourself: What is worth doing today? What is worth focusing on? What is worth spending the limited ...
Paying Attention Is Anything but Elementary
Attention is a limited resource. Paying attention to one thing necessarily comes at the expense of another.
We cannot allocate our attention to multiple things at once and expect it to function at the same level as it would were we to focus on just one activity.
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