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Most people reach for white noise. Pink is usually the better pick.
White, pink and brown noise do genuinely different jobs. Here is how to tell which one your room needs, and the volume mistake almost everyone makes.
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It does not take 23 minutes to refocus
The famous number comes from one small observational study, and what it measured is not what it gets used to prove. The real finding is more awkward, because most of the interruptions are yours.
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Video calls are not tiring because of the screen
Four hours of calls wrecks people in a way four hours of screen work does not. The reasons are specific, and three of the four have a setting you can change today.
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Four breathing patterns you can run without anyone noticing
No mat, no closed eyes, no leaving the room. Each one does something different, and picking the wrong one before a meeting will make you sleepy instead of steady.
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With ADHD the hard part is not focusing. It is starting.
The advice usually aimed at ADHD assumes the problem is attention running out. Most days the problem is a task that will not begin, and time that does not seem to pass.
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Blue light is not what is keeping you awake
Blue-blocking glasses have been tested properly, and the results are underwhelming. The thing that actually costs you sleep after an evening at your desk is not a colour.
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