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Top 10 best ways to lose focus
December 6, 2011
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1.Check your Facebook. 'Nuff said. | |
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2.Visit Mashable. I once spent 4 hours clicking and reading articles before I even realized I was reading about Small Business Practices when I originally went there for a free Fonts download. | |
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3.Do some research on Wikipedia. One time I navigated over there to simply check a release date for a videogame, and pretty soon I had about 30 tabs open about totally un-related things like Napolean, DRM, disk drive file systems, Marvel Comics, Alcatraz, and Penguins. | |
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4.Read an article on Gizmodo. Soon enough you'll be watching videos of a ton of pidgeons being trapped by a catapulted net or reading about how to stay safe online. | |
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5.Keep Twitter open. I'll sit for 45 minutes working hardcore, then I'll glance up in the corner where my Twitter tab is located and see that I have 237 new tweets waiting to be viewed. Impulse makes me check them, and pretty soon I'm reading through 18 articles on Mashable or Minervity. | |
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6.Watch a video on YouTube. Pretty soon you'll be spending an hour creating a huge playlist instead of actually doing work. Sure, it's nice to listen to music while working, but that's what iTunes / WinAmp / foobar2000 / WMP / VLC / MPC / MediaMonkey / etc are for. | |
 | 7.Check out Reddit. Or Digg. Either way, they're the same thing. | |
 | 8.Read up on the latest game news on Kotaku. If you're anything like me, then you'll even start watching 10 minute long videos about a guy who doesn't kill anything in a game designed to kill things in. | |
 | 9.Go to Minervity with hopes of following a tutorial on basically anything. Photoshop, Illustrator, CSS, whatever... either way, you'll come out of it several hours later with many new tabs and bookmarks. | |
 | 10.Check your emails. Believe it or not, it is a HUGE time-waster, because pretty soon you'll be seeing emails that just have to be replied to, even though it has nothing to do with your work life. Or you'll see an email from Microsoft saying that there's a new XBLA game out that catches your attention, and pretty soon you're booting up your Xbox360 to download it. Then you need to play it in order to make sure that it was worth the purchase. Three hours later you'll return to your computer, completely drained of any motive to work. |
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