Charles Duhigg
American journalist and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators; a New York Times reporter from 2006 to 2017, part of a team awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
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Their wordsFinally, the single most important tactic for improving focus is getting enough sleep. What's most striking is that sleep-deprived people don't believe they're less focused, even though every study shows they are.
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Their wordsEmail, Slack and other interruptions are the single greatest enemy of workplace attention. The key is batching your notifications and minimizing your inbox.
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Their wordsWaiting for certainty is usually the wrong instinct. Better decisions come from committing to a choice — but then choosing deliberate reassessment points, which are on the calendar, where you can change your mind.
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Their wordsRemember that humans don’t automatically learn from failure (though we often believe we do). Rather, studies show we tend to look away from bad choices because they're painful to remember.
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Their wordsActually, most tech is good for you. A century ago, housework consumed about 58 hours per week. Today, it takes just 10 hours because of dish washers and microwaves.
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Their wordsBasically, anything except short videos fed to you by an algorithm. When you make choices about what you see, you're happy. When you abandon that choice to Facebook, you aren't.
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Their wordsAnother important tip: DO NOT CHARGE YOUR PHONE IN YOUR BEDROOM. Tons of studies show that smartphone use in bed makes it harder to fall asleep, raises your heart rate, and injects adrenaline and cortisol into your bloodstream.
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