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Flow & Focus

Single-tasking, attention residue, and the cost of switching

What the task-switching literature actually shows

The popular framing of multitasking as a moral failure misses what the research describes: the brain does not multitask, it switches between tasks, and the cost of switching is larger and more invisible than the people incurring it typically realise.

#deep-work #focus #attention #evidence #neuroscience

By Mick

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Mind & Method

The goal-setting research, briefly summarised

What Locke and Latham actually found, and the implementation intention research that followed

Goal-setting theory is one of the most-replicated findings in industrial psychology. The popular literature has built itself around the surface features while sometimes missing the conditions that make the underlying mechanism actually work.

#habits #mental-models #evidence #behaviour-change

By Mick

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