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Construct: Make something new in your mind. The idea that you can be lost in thought, staring out of a window—without frantically scribbling notes—and still be having important breakthroughs is foreign in our go-go-go multitasking professional climate. For example, when you’re driving or on the train.
Hewlett-Packard, according to Druskat and Wolff, likes to have each of their employees work at cross-training. Discourage multitasking: The multitasking technique does not work. Instead, use it constructively so that your team can solve a problem together and figure out how to way to address the problem.
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My own burnout lasted for years and started when I collapsed on the floor of the gym that I was training (too hard) in. Filing one-liner inspiration notes away satisfies your need to multitask, but doesn’t allow you to be pulled fully away from what you’re already working on.
The plot spans the entire, infinite universe, on a timescale spanning well before the construction of planet Earth to moments after the heat death of the universe. They say no to cubicle lunches, four-minute book summaries, “multitasking” (whatever the heck that means) and monochrome, microwave dinners. The Now Habit by Neil Fiore.
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