Why your brain wants to check Facebook every 31 seconds – and how you can stop it

Why do we drop stuff that we need to finish in order to start other things – even when we know that we shouldn’t be switching back and forth on our to-do list (or worse, between our to-do’s and Facebook?) It’s one of the mysteries of modern office life. Since we at MeisterTask are building an app to keep people on task, I felt like I should understand multitasking. It turns out that there’s not a lot of research on it. There is plenty of scientific work on how long it takes before we

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