Not exact matches
Focusing on one task at a time won't work if your phone is consistently
interrupting you with personal texts or the latest ballgame scores, so productive people give themselves the gift of momentum
by eliminating
distractions from immediate surroundings.
The research team set out to investigate the difference between «positive» and «negative»
distractions, i.e., does it make a difference for your productivity whether you're
interrupted by, say, that highly annoying chatty colleague or
by a link to a gorilla who has adopted a kitten?
Fortunately, an activation has the power to capture consumers» interest
by helping them focus on a single message with no interference or
distractions interrupting the communication between the company and its target audience.
Very interest post on c / net about how often the average worker is
interrupted by phone calls, emails, IMs or other
distractions.
This takes many forms:
interrupting,
distraction by smartphone, thinking about what you want to say next, etc..