You’ve spent the last two hours on a task that could have quite easily taken 20 minutes.
You catch yourself scrolling through Twitter for the fourth time in one morning, when you could have sworn you were doing something important five minutes ago.
Why can’t you just focus, buckle down, and get on with it?
Blame your brain.
In a new book called Deep Work: The Secret to Achieving Peak Productivity – excerpted on Wharton University of Pennsylvania’s website and highlighted by The Science of Us – computer science professor Cal Newport explains that in order to actually focus and stop getting distracted, we… Read the full story