{"id":16582,"date":"2015-01-18T12:34:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T11:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16582"},"modified":"2015-01-18T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T11:38:00","slug":"if-multitasking-is-scrambling-our-brains-what-is-the-solution-to-information-overload-and-the-attention-problems-that-it-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16582","title":{"rendered":"If multitasking is scrambling our brains, what is the solution to information overload and the attention problems that it causes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;We need to blinker ourselves, to better monitor our attentional focus. Enforced periods of no email or internet to allow us to sustain concentration have been shown to be tremendously helpful. And breaks \u2013 even a 15-minute break every two or three hours \u2013 make us more productive in the long run. Also, prioritising tasks is very important. So many of us find that while we\u2019re working on one task, a nagging voice pops up in our heads saying we should be doing something else. If you explicitly prioritise your \u201cto do\u201d list, you know that whatever you\u2019re working on now is the most important thing you should be doing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Extract from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2015\/jan\/18\/daniel-j-levitin-q-and-a-organised-mind-interview\">Q &amp; A with\u00a0neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin<\/a>, author of *The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight In The Age Of Information Overload&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We need to blinker ourselves, to better monitor our attentional focus. Enforced periods of no email or internet to allow us to sustain concentration have been shown to be tremendously helpful. And breaks \u2013 even a 15-minute break every two or three hours \u2013 make us more productive in the long run. Also, prioritising tasks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16590,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16582\/revisions\/16590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}