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How to Stay Sharp in the Lab: Protecting Your Attention Against Distractions
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#83 — Can you decide what captures your attention?
Modern society has developed sophisticated means of engaging our attention, often for purposes decidedly against our personal interests.
And in the lab, tasks like calculating reagent concentrations or pipetting multiple samples require a high level of focus to avoid messing up. The more mundane, the harder it can be!
And then there are the competing demands of writing-up and hands-on lab work.
What do you do while you wait for your gel to run? Turn your attention to a different job, check your messages, or start to write up your experiment? In other words, is a short distraction actually helpful or not?
So, is the war already lost, or can we take charge of our attention, especially when it matters most?
In this episode of The Happy Scientist, we explore these important questions.
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