Our brains aren’t super great when it comes to tracking time. Depending on what we’re doing, time can seem as passing slower or quicker.
Perception of time is subjective. Consequently, we’re not great at estimating how long a certain work task or activity lasted, or how much time something might take.
We’ve summed it up with a pretty short infographic:
Want to test the theory? Try this:
1. Write down everything you think you do on a normal workday, both at work and at home. Guess how much time these things take.
2. Use Toggl to track everything you do for a whole day. Compare the results to how you thought you spend your days.
The end-result looks a lot like the picture above, doesn’t it?
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Want to know how much time you’re losing on unfocused work every day? We’ve got a trick for catching multitasking in the act.
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Mart,
LOVED your comic! I hope to join the ranks of “former procrastinator” soon.
Can’t wait to read article about how to rid oneself of the pesky habit of “multitasking.”
Cheers,
Michelle 🙂
Thanks! Being informed is key when dropping nasty habits 🙂 As for multitasking, I did actually recently offer a solution for catching it, here: http://blog.toggl.com/2015/02/how-to-stop-multitasking/
fantastic put up, very informative. I wonder why the other experts of this sector don’t notice this.
You must proceed your writing. I am confident,
you have a huge readers’ base already!