You have to separate yourself--for increasing periods of time--from the sources of your distraction. It's a mistake, [Dr Larry Rosen] said, to try to monotask by force of will--because it's too hard to resist that informational tap on the shoulder. #JohannHari

You have to separate yourself--for increasing periods of time--from the sources of your distraction. It's a mistake, [Dr Larry Rosen] said, to try to monotask by force of will--because it's too hard to resist that informational tap on the shoulder. #JohannHari

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