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It was discussed that the average person can focus for only 40 seconds before getting distracted, with this decreasing when a phone is present. The book explores this and offers solutions for improving focus and productivity.
Hyperfocus was pretty interesting for me, Chris because it was a little shocking. First of all that we can work for an average of 40 seconds in front of our computer before getting distracted.
— Episode: 247: Chris Bailey | Hyperfocus Secrets f...
Episode: 247: Chris Bailey | Hyperfocus Secrets for Better...
It was discussed that the average person can focus for only 40 seconds before getting distracted, with this decreasing when a phone is present. The book explores this and offers solutions for improving focus and productivity.
Hyperfocus was pretty interesting for me, Chris because it was a little shocking. First of all that we can work for an average of 40 seconds in front of our computer before getting distracted.
And I thought there's no way that's true. I'm going to time myself and I didn't really make it much further than that.
So it was a little bit depressing. I hate throwing that word around, but I thought for sure I'm super productive.
And so I went in deep into the research and that 42nd study was one of them that I encountered is conducted by a team of researchers at Microsoft, Mary Sherwin, Skis, Shams, Yikbal.
And so I thought, okay, I'm going to fly out to Microsoft's research campus just to see how they conduct this study.
Episode: 247: Chris Bailey | Hyperfocus Secrets for Better...
It was discussed how the average person can only focus for about 40 seconds before becoming distracted, and the concept of "scatterfocus" was introduced as a way to combat this.
Hyperfocus was pretty interesting for me, Chris because it was a little shocking. First of all that we can work for an average of 40 seconds in front of our computer before getting distracted.
And I thought there's no way that's true. I'm going to time myself and I didn't really make it much further than that.
So it was a little bit depressing. I hate throwing that word around, but I thought for sure I'm super productive.
The whole book is hyper focused and then it's like, but also sometimes you should probably not do this at all and you call this in the book scatter focus letting our mind wander.
Chris thank you so much for all of this this is very useful and practical which I like and hyper focus has a lot of it's a lot of practicals and not a lot of like kids these days which I feel a lot of productivity books or focus books are often like rants and there's not a whole lot of how to fix it and this book is different.
Episode: 247: Chris Bailey | Hyperfocus Secrets for Better...
It was discussed that the average person can only focus for 40 seconds at a time before getting distracted. It also delves into 'scatterfocus', which is the opposite of hyperfocus, and how it can be used to help solve complex problems.
Hyperfocus was pretty interesting for me, Chris because it was a little shocking. First of all that we can work for an average of 40 seconds in front of our computer before getting distracted.
And I thought there's no way that's true. I'm going to time myself and I didn't really make it much further than that.
So it was a little bit depressing. I hate throwing that word around, but I thought for sure I'm super productive.
But then there are the other moments where our mind is off somewhere else and maybe the listener has experienced one or two of these as you've been listening just because this is the way our mind is wired.
The whole book is hyper focused and then it's like, but also sometimes you should probably not do this at all and you call this in the book scatter focus letting our mind wander.