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Two studies have found that having a phone in eye-sight (even if it’s face down or off) reduces your brain power.

What we know is that our brains have a finite capacity for cognitive processing. There’s only so much available brain power to help us stay focussed.

When our smartphone is in sight (especially if we tend to rely on our device for our work), it drains our attentional reserves.

Why? Because we’re constantly thinking:

“I wonder what that notification was…”
“Have any emails come through?”
“I wonder if anything has happened on IG lately…”
“Maybe I’ll just quickly check WhatsApp…”

And even when we do successfully resist checking our phone (called ‘inhibiting automatic attention’), that still uses up cognitive power!

So the short story is…

If you need to focus, put your phone out of sight.

You can thank me later 😉

Do you struggle to focus when your phone is visible on your desk? (I do…)


Research:
Ward, A. F., Duke, K., Gneezy, A., & Bos, M. W. (2017). Brain drain: The mere presence of one’s own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2(2), 140-154.
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