Book Titles

Stress… is no more and no less than the inability to predict and control the forces that shape our lives.

…as a knowledge worker, you’re expected to be in charge of everything. And when things go wrong, it is your fault.

Studies have found that information workers have so much coming at them, they switch tasks every three minutes, making the workday fragmented and incoherent.

…it takes ten to twenty times the amount of the interruption time to return to the previous task: It can take five minutes are a mere thirty-second interruption to get back on track.

Driving while talking on the cell phone slows reaction times and awareness to the same degree that driving over the legal alcohol limit does.

…as one British study found, multitasking makes you stupid – dumber than getting stoned.

…contaminated time, ruminating over the endless to-do list streaming across the brain… saps mental energy.

Though it’s a popular notion that women’s brains are wired to multi-task and men’s to compartmentalize, neuroscientists have found that’s patently untrue.

In flow, humans lose themselves and feel most at peace. It is a state… greater than happiness. And it requires undivided attention and uninterrupted time.

There is no question that the overwhelm and information overload are fracturing time for both mean and women and splintering it into whirling bits of time confetti.