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LESSON 2 · Break Through Brain Fog

PAUSE TO THINK

How much can a brief interruption hurt your accuracy?

Even a few seconds can roughly double your error rate.

A lab study found that even a few seconds of interruption can roughly double errors after people return to a task. The break feels tiny, but it knocks you out of the sequence you were holding.

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