Your ability to mentally disengage from one task before starting another matters more than motivation or discipline. Here’s how this habit makes or breaks productivity.

Think multitasking boosts efficiency? Context switching can cut productivity by 40% and increase mental fatigue. Here’s how ...

You sit down at 8 AM with a clear plan, and by 9:30 am, you have toggled between email, Slack, a sprint board, a document review, and a surprise calendar hold that wasn’t there yesterday. Context ...

That constant tab-switching habit might be doing more harm to your brain than you think. We’ve all been there – responding to emails while joining a Zoom call, scrolling social media during a TV show, ...

Cognitive control enables individuals to adapt their behaviour in response to changing environmental demands, playing a pivotal role in everyday functioning. Task switching, a core component of ...

Are you constantly bombarded with emails, Slack messages, project updates, and urgent requests from your boss? Today, this is the norm for most of us. This rapid switch between activities, context ...

Juggling tasks can feel overwhelming, especially when your brain seems to rebel against the idea of switching from one thing to the next. For neurodivergent women, this challenge can be particularly ...

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can track complex tasks, but it’s harder to switch between them. Their brains ...

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Many people try to juggle a growing number of unfinished tasks by multi-tasking. As we discussed in a previous post, multi-tasking just makes you less productive because our brains do not work that ...