Managing attention is our biggest challenge

Most people, without hesitation, will say time is their scarcest resource during the working day.

Well it is certainly finite, but, actually, I don’t think it’s your most scarce resource. After all, everyone has the same amount of time, and yet individual differences in productivity are enormous.

The correct answer is your attention – your personal capacity to attend to the right things for the right length of time.

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