The Tragedy of Your Attention

You get distracted every 8 minutes.

In an 8 hour day, that's about 60 distractions.

The average interruption takes about 5 minutes.

So that's 5 hours of distraction in an 8 hour work day.

Here's how I got distracted, why it happened and a system that you can use to guard your attention.

The Close Call

I was performing an out of hours emergency operation when a referral came. The referring doctor said they wanted to speak to me now.

I was at the stage of training where I would stop operating to take referrals.

I no longer do this.