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How to make rational decisions
The role of biases in decision-making
The impact of social norms on decision-making
Except these we should never try to multitask. Then we only switch task rapidly which creates attention residue, for that it takes 50% more time for the next task.
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As many as 40 % of our actions are habits, which shouldn’t require conscious deliberation. That is autopilot mode. We can't manage our attention in autopilot mode.
To swith off autopilot mode -
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Our brain receives 11 million “bits” of information in the form of sensory experiences each second. But how many of these eleven million bits can our minds consciously process and focus on at once? Just forty of them. Not forty million or forty thousand, but forty.
Our atte...
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Scatter Focus: Our Brains Hidden Creative Mode
Different style of scatter focus
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Studies show we can work for an average of just forty seconds in front of a computer before we’re either distracted or interrupted. (Needless to say, we do our best work when we attend to a task for a lot longer than forty seconds.)
We all are distracted by something else a...
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As a rule, we should
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To hyperfocus,
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Multitasking fractures your attention between multiple tasks at the same time; monotasking fully focuses on one task.
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