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Why You Can’t Focus at Work by 2 P.M. (and How to Get It Back)
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If you sit down to work with your email open on a second monitor, Slack open and twelve browser tabs staring back at you, your brain is trying to track more than it can hold. Your working memory can actively process about four chunks of information at a time.
In this episode of The Mastery Project Podcast, I explain why your thinking slows down by two o'clock in the afternoon, and I walk through a three-step paper method to get your mental bandwidth back. Educational psychologist John Sweller developed cognitive load theory to explain what happens when unfinished tasks, reminders…
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