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Personal Productivity A recipe to harness the natural need for distraction "Frankly, I’m not sure we’re designed to focus on only one thing for eight or ten hours in a row. I’ve always found that it’s useful to have something else to be doing when you’re too burnt out to face the next thing on your list. That way, flipping back and forth between the two projects prevents focus fatigue. "Now, the most important thing is to make sure your other project isn’t 'browsing on YouTube' or 'catching up on Facebook.' Make it a project that forces you to learn, because you want to. "Always have a learning project in mind. For me, it’s typically learning some new tool, some new math, some new physics, or some new programming skill. It doesn’t really matter what it is, just have something on the back burner." - Goli Mohammadi |