Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar Yousef

Every single time you switch your attention. You pay for it. So multitasking is a myth. Yeah. So what we're going to do is get a sense of the amount of time and energy that you essentially waste every single time you switch your attention. Okay, let's do this. Alright. You ready? Yeah. Get ready? Go. Oh my gosh, this is a shit show. Done? So on a daily basis, theoretically, I'm losing sixty percent of my productivity just by switching between two different types of tasks at once. Yeah. And over two hours a day is the average now of how much time is being wasted bouncing between screens and different tasks. If we stay this distracted, we will live a life.

That we don't like living. So what is in this book? We're gonna go through the box. I'm gonna teach you all the science for productivity and human performance. Because I know that the default settings of all of our technology are designed by people like me to maximize engagement. For example, the infinite scroll is like going to a buffet and just opening your mouth and there's just an assembly line of food. And candy just going straight up. There's no backstop, but we can use reverse neuroscience to reverse this entire thing. Where's the first place to stop? First, put your phone in Ray. Research from my lab shows Rayscale makes the phone less neurologically stimulating, and we saw, on average, people spent one hour less on their phones every single day. That's seven hours a week. Next is just Choosing long form over short form content. If we have too much short form, your attention span is shot. You literally feel shittier and your brain operates at a lower level. I can see in your productivity toolkit there is a clock. Yeah. This is a huge, huge game changer in terms of productivity. But also there is a focus sprint to help people to do up to two times as much as they would otherwise do. And we can talk about biological chronotypes that dictate the ideal time. should be doing your focus sprints. But also I have another amazing thing to strengthen your mind and make you better at focusing. So I'm gonna teach you all this stuff. Okay, so let's get into it. So the first thing we ought to really focus in on is

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