From the course: Improving the Value of Your Time
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How focus builds your value
From the course: Improving the Value of Your Time
How focus builds your value
- Focus is critical. To become invaluable, you must focus your time on that which is most valuable. Yet, focus is elusive to most. Without realizing it, scattered attention can cripple your value per hour. Attention switches, what many people call multitasking, is one of the biggest obstacles to time value improvement. Many of us feel we have too many things demanding our attention and too much to do. Yet, in an attempt to compensate, we may turn to multitasking and that's often problematic. When you attempt to do multiple tasks that require your attention at the same time, you're not truly doing them all simultaneously. Your brain is not capable of handling that load, so it compensates by rapidly switching back and forth between those activities. This is why I refer to multitasking as switchtasking. No matter how valuable each individual task is, switchtasking inflicts a heavy cost, four costs really. Attention…
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