In a world full of distractions, getting your brain to focus on one thing at a time requires radical measures.

This story originally appeared on LearnVest as "Is Multitasking Killing Your Productivity? Try Monotasking Instead." If you’re hunkering down at work to wrap up projects before the holiday break, ...

These three habits might look like distractions, yet psychological research suggests that they’re far closer to real ...

For so long, the concept of juggling many tasks at once was a resume-worthy skill. In a way, the more balls you could keep in the air without seemingly faltering, the more adept you appeared to ...

If you’re a connoisseur of productivity methods–and even if you aren’t–you’ve likely heard about “monotasking,” the alternative to multitasking in which the name of the game is to stop juggling ...

With the type of fast-paced, competitive and highly digitized ecosystem we live in, it’s painstakingly clear that a lot of people have been plagued by this unshakeable sense of mindlessness. This ...

I have an app on my phone that opens my email, so I can answer messages while waiting in line for after-school pickup or eating a quick lunch by myself. But the other night my wife was explaining ...

I burned the top of my hand on the oven rack this week when pulling out a baked potato while looking at a text from my mother. The burn looks like South Carolina and it isn’t the first time I’ve ...

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