Does 'ATTENTION RESIDUE' hampering Your Efficiency ? _ ISSUE 171
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During the week, I came across an interesting concept called â Attention residueâ.
Attention residue is at complete odds with the way we work: our brains simply werenât designed to work on two mentally challenging tasks at once. This can have a serious knock-on effect on our engagement and satisfaction; leaving us exhausted with little quality work to show for all our toil. It causes us to spread our attention too thinly when to perform at our peak we need to conserve it for what matters most.
In other words, if we jump from task to task, it becomes impossible to give anything our complete focus. This limits our ability to do complex deep thinking and problem solving, so we can never perform at our best. If someone has attention residue, theyâre essentially operating with part of their cognitive resources being distracted, and that can significantly harm their productivity and performance.
When it comes to improving focus, many people assume their attention span just isnât robust enough. But more often than not, the biggest thing holding them back is behavioral: they simply arenât working in a way that enables protracted singular attention on any task.
Too many of us unconsciously limit our productive focus by weaving small acts of interruption throughout our day. Many of these can masquerade as productive â like quickly scanning Slack and email for urgent requests before diving into a big task, checking a new comment on a document weâre collaborating on, or quickly completing a few small tasks to clear our to-do list.
This grazing approach to working quickly creates a build-up of something called attention residue âwhere you continue to think and process a previous task once youâve moved onto another. While this is clearly dangerous for our productive performance, itâs not always unavoidable.
So the moot question is - What exactly can we do to reduce attention residue? You can adopt 6 strategies for reducing attention residue. If you are interested in taking a deep dive to increase your productivity then take a deep dive here to know more about these strategies.
Take good care & enjoy reading this week's dose of âMindful Productivity & Cerebral Happinessâ.
Joe
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