it’s been reported that average workers have thirty to one hundred projects on their agenda, are interrupted seven times an hour and distracted up to 2.1 hours a day—but Forbes magazine insists that “focus is a mental muscle that you have to develop, especially if yours has been weakened by years of multitasking.” This is one of the reasons I don’t allow phones in my class and enjoy taking people out of their offices. Without constant distractions hovering about, people can really focus on what they’re observing, and as a result, they see so much more.
