Focus is a problem. On average, people work for only three minutes before getting distracted or interrupted — and then it takes an average of 23 minutes to get back to that original task. Technology ...

Focusing on work and other projects is hard, and it’s getting harder. Who among us doesn’t have a to-do list that seems to be getting longer by the hour? Add in the endless — and distracting — news ...

Have you ever sat down to tackle a “quick task” and realized an hour later that you’re still not finished? You’re not alone. Your brain can make it really hard to estimate task time accurately, and it ...

To become more effective at any task, borrow from a Formula 1 driver’s mental tool kit. By Adam Bluestein Few sports demand as intense concentration as Formula 1 racing. For nearly two hours, a driver ...

Seemingly everyone is concerned about concentration these days. Margaret Sibley, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, specializes in ...

We’ve all been there: the endless laundry pile, the last 20 minutes of a meeting that could have been an email, or the long commute after an especially long day at work. While we may think we’ll feel ...

In this age of ‘always-on, anytime, anywhere,’ human attention spans have decreased drastically, from about 12 seconds in the early 2000s to about 8 seconds in 2018 for the average internet user. That ...

Screens vie for our attention everywhere now, and many of us struggle to keep our minds focused on one task at a time. Research shows that media multitasking, like texting while watching video shorts, ...

Google Tasks is a versatile and user-friendly to-do app designed to simplify task management while seamlessly integrating with the Google Workspace ecosystem. Whether you need a tool to organize your ...