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Handling Interruptions: Strategies for Staying Focused - Ch. 9

How to stay focused at work by dealing with interruptions in real time and protecting your focus and productivity. Discover practical time management strategies, deep work techniques, and science-backed ways to reduce distractions, attention residue, and switching costs. Walk away with a simple, actionable system to improve concentration and stay focused even in a busy, interruption-heavy workplace. What You'll Learn: • Turn the science of attention residue and switching costs into simple daily habits that protect your focus and productivity. • Design environmental and social boundaries at work so coworkers and notifications don’t control your attention by default. • Use time-boxed “focus sprints” and realistic break rhythms to get deep work done in an interruption-heavy environment. • Create fast, structured recovery rituals to regain concentration quickly after you’ve been pulled away from a task. • Identify your highest-impact focus window each day and protect it with clear time management strategies. • Translate big ideas into one small, specific action you can take this week to stay more focused at work. • Capture key insights in writing so you remember them and can apply them when real-time interruptions show up. • Spot and correct common misconceptions about multitasking and productivity that quietly sabotage your concentration.