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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Does E-Mail Distract? Not if You Take Charge

New York Times: "Some workers maintain that they can work simultaneously on e-mail and other tasks. But in fact, “our brains aren’t able to do two things at one time,” said Kathleen Nadeau, a business coach and clinical psychologist who specializes in attention deficit disorder and time management.

“We are constantly interrupting one task to attend to another task,” she said, “and that leads to very rapid cognitive fatigue.”"

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