Dr. Cal Newport

in which I was more than 15 minutes away from looking at something that induced a network switch.

The data I like to cite, which was looking at email and Slack checks and knowledge workers, this came from Rescue Time, the software company, the median

average interval between checks was five minutes.

It's the median and the mode was one minute in this data set.

So it was like, we are checking all the time.

That means you were never in a state then in your day where you don't have a confused cognitive space, where you don't have partially you were switching to this task, but then you switch back to this task before that finished.

But before you could fully lock in on this task, you look back over here.

And so you're spending your entire day

in the state of cognitive disorder, which is going to be reduced cognitive output, right?

So you get rid of that.

I mean, I always say, like, one of my advantages is not that I'm doing anything smarter.

I'm just avoiding sometimes the dumb thing that's holding, slowing other people down.

You get rid of that and you feel like you're on the world's best neurotropic or something like this.

Like, oh, I'm just doing this thing.

I'm doing it pretty well.

Now I'm done.

This didn't even take that long.

So, I mean, I think people underestimate what's going on here.

No, let's invent a term.

You told me the term makes sense.