How I focus deeply every day

Did you know that it takes seven minutes to concentrate on tasks? If we add an average of 150 mobile unlocks per day, imagine how much time we have left each day to focus on what matters.

That gap between tasks is what researcher S. Leroy calls “attention residual” in Why Is It So Hard to Do My Work. She told you about it in a bit more detail in Why we need deep focus to success according to science.

When we go from working on a PowerPoint to answering a WhatsApp message, it will take at least seven minutes, plus the time to answer messages, to go back…