Manuals / Focus & Time / Ch 1

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1. Attention is the bottleneck

Focus & Time · 36 pages source format

You do not have a time problem — you have an attention allocation problem. Every ping steals recovery time.

What you'll learn

  • Attention economics
  • Context switching cost
  • Energy cycles

Interruption audit

Log every interruption for one work session. Count and categorize.

Do this now

One 2-hour audit. Tally: self, others, phone, slack.

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