The Radiopaedia Reading Room Podcast 12. Avoiding distractions and burnout with Naveen Sharma
Apr 10, 2023
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Tame Email With Few Focused Sessions
- Avoid keeping email open constantly and limit checks to two or three focused sessions per day.
- During each session act: either do the email immediately or make a firm plan for when you'll handle it to prevent ongoing distraction.
Remove Phone Barriers For Focus
- Remove your phone from your person during deep work or delete addictive apps and limit use to a scheduled daily check.
- Naveen uses physical barriers and allowed PC-only Twitter checks to break phone-driven interruptions.
Schedule Rhythmical Deep Work Sessions
- Use a rhythmical or journalistic schedule: block out planned distraction-free periods for deep work and leave other times for shallow, interruptible tasks.
- Plan deep sessions weekly and pencil them into your roster to protect cognitive work time.