Did you know Nir Eyal, the author of this piece, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out their session on ‘Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life’ here. From comic ...

(Boston)— The world is full of distractions, like intrusive memories, worries about the future and reminders of things to do. Sustained attention, the ability to maintain focus on a specific stimulus ...

Concentration is becoming a rare skill. Distractions scream for our attention everywhere. The average American checks their phone 205 times a day: Based on 16 waking hours, that’s once every 5 minutes ...

Distraction contributes to reduced work output, reduced work quality, and increased danger on the job. Here’s how to stop it.

The degree of rotation even predicted task performance. When the distraction did not cause a mistake, the neural activity formed a complete circle, signaling full recovery. But when the distraction ...