Clear goals, limited triggers, and a simple routine help you stay focused and reduce mistakes in a distracted world.

Did you know Nir Eyal, the author of this piece, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out their session on ‘Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life’ here. From comic ...

We live in a fast-paced world fettered with constant distractions, news events, and shiny objects. How do you keep yourself from multi-tasking, going off course, and losing efficiency? And, how do you ...

(Boston)— The world is full of distractions, like intrusive memories, worries about the future and reminders of things to do. Sustained attention, the ability to maintain focus on a specific stimulus ...

Confident you can multitask? Research shows the most certain people are usually worst at it. Here’s what brain science ...

As sure as the brain is prone to distraction, it can also return its focus to the task at hand. A new study in animals by scientists at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory of MIT shows how ...

February 21, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google We've featured quite a few ways to rid yourself of distractions during work, but xkcd author Randall Munroe ...