![]() You can force yourself to be more productive. Hell, if you were a junkie would you put a syringe in front of your face and try to “wait it out”.ĭon’t think so. It’s pointless to rely on your strong will in this case. ![]() If you wanted to lose weight, would you place candies and cookies all over your flat? Would you sniff them every now and then and lick the glazing to reassure yourself about how great your willpower is? You can also look at it from a different perspective. If you acknowledge this fear, your battle with distractions is already half-won. It’s cold and lonely here without the cordial, digital touch of the internet. How has it been working out for you so far? We can rationalize basically everything. However, most of the times this is not logic talking. I don’t want to rely on any stupid software!” (read more about forcing yourself to learn). “Yeah, theoretically it sounds good but I actually want to do it ON MY OWN, with help of my strong will. Nothing will happen if we don’t check this one website. There is a really easy solution to eliminate this kind of distractions – block the websites which steal your time and distract you! Don’t Give Yourself a Chance To Failīefore I move to the list of my recommendations, I would like to warn you about the crappy argument I have heard so many times. That’s the question! What possibly could we miss that is so important? We do so because we can’t allow ourselves to miss out on…what? It’s not our fault though. I believe that the technology is the true culprit. We are almost conditioned to check our phones or e-mail every couple of minutes. But usually, it takes between 5-25 minutes to regain your focus. Having that number in mind, interrupting your workflow check a website or to send a text message doesn’t seem so harmless anymore. I have seen plenty of other research indicating different numbers. That’s a scary number if you ask me. Of course, this is just one of the statistics. Gloria Mark, Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, IrvineĢ3 minutes and 15 seconds. But here’s the bad news - it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back to the task. We found about 82 percent of all interrupted work is resumed on the same day. You also don’t know how you ended up watching a YT on how to cook dinakdakan. Just one quick article and you get back to work.Īfter 4 hours it turns out that you haven’t done anything. Ok, maybe after next 10 minutes you’ll check another website. I mean, it’s only like 2 minutes and you’re back in the saddle. Checking your e-mail doesn’t seem very harmful, right?
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