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Want to Reduce Digital Distractions? Brain Coach Jim Kwik Shares Strategies for Better Focus

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Also known as the extrathalamic control modulatory system, this part of the brain filters through the deluge of information we receive every day to determine what’s important and what should be muted. With social media, texts and emails, it’s easy for our brains to suddenly switch into defense mode to fight fires.

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Time Is Your Most Valuable Resource—Don’t Waste It

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We have an infinite wealth of information, connections and resources at our fingertips, thanks to the internet and smartphones. They are extremely valuable to you, to marketers and to social media platforms. Your phone, the apps you use and every website you visit are designed to capture and hold your attention.

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Sean Cannell’s 10 Tips for Succeeding on YouTube

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Today’s smartphones can record professional HD and 4K video—plus, you can easily livestream from your phone to Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. Right now, vertical video is significant on social media. Useful information will hold more weight than what kind of camera you filmed with. Upgrade your audio.

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Diverse Voices & Powerful Narratives in the Workplace

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This article was originally written by Beth Novitsky of Gensler for Work Design Magazine. As a social media company, LinkedIn understands the importance of ensuring that team members feel like they belong to something bigger. Quiet zones where phone usage is discouraged and external stimuli are kept to a minimum?

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This Is How You Can Get Better at Reading People

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It also includes every way you communicate, whether it’s in person, by phone, by email, by text or on social media. Each personality style wants to receive information (communication) at a different speed. This article originally appeared in the February 2018 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated.

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The Cognitive Scientist’s Handbook to Working an Optimal Day

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If you’re browsing social media or checking emails, that’s not mental recovery—that’s like trying to rest your muscles by doing pushups in between bench presses. So during this time, what we’re good at mentally is alertness, vigilance, attention to detail and information review,” Loney says. From 3-10 p.m. Don’t get mad.

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How Happy Are You?

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Because that apparently isn’t enough, late in the year, this magazine came along with another fun game. For my own experiment, I used a fairly basic spreadsheet and phone alerts. The numbers tell you how you’re living and how you feel about how you’re living—good information for anyone who plans to keep living.

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