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In an age where 695,000 Facebook status updates, 1,500 blog posts, and 168 million emails are sent every 60 seconds, it remains difficult to focus and keep from multitasking. It pays however to limit your tasks to a maximum at two at a time. According to the infographic:

When the brain is faced with two tasks, the medial prefrontal cortex divides in two so each half can focus on one task. The anterior-most part of the frontal lobes enables the switch between two goals. When a third task comes into play, it’s too much for the brain to handle at once. Consequently, accuracy drops considerable.

Some more interesting stats from the infographic:

• 50% of Firefox Users have 2.38 tabs open on average.
• 25% of Firefox Users have 3.59 tabs open on average.
• People with email opened switched tabs 37 times over those without email opened at 18 times.
• The average computer user checks 40 websites a day.
• The average computer user switches programs 36 times an hour, or every two minutes!
• Media consumed in 1960 per person was 5 hours. That number has jumped to 12 hours per day.

Here are some tips from the infographic that can help you combat stress and digital information overload:

• Set only a few times per day to check email. Send messages in batches
• Schedule time to check your social networking sites.
• Subscribe to RSS feeds so you can read your blogs all at once and in one place.
• Turn off the tech when with family and friends.
• Take a break from technology after hours.

Measure your time on a task to minimize your multitasking and reduce your stress:

This “Digital Stress and Your Brain” infographic, combined with the more scary side-effect of sitting down all day, caused me to think deeply about breaks. I’m often so involved in what I want to accomplish that day that I spend too much time hammering through tasks without getting up. I know I need to stand up, drink water, and recharge but often forget.

A small Jquery tool I created that anyone is free to try, take, or modify is a countdown timer in the browser. The timer counts down from 30 minutes and then pops up an alert window saying “times up!” The idea is to stand up, drink some water, and take a short break. You can modify the time to anything you want by changing the query string.

Example: http://codyward.com/countdown/?time=14:52

Click the image below to open the countdown timer.



View the infographic below:



Via: OnlineUniversities.com

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