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Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most brilliant and interesting people

and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. It turns out that most of us can only work for an average of 40 seconds before becoming distracted.

This is bad. This is real bad. It's not just our phones breaking us away from what matters but our habits.

In fact, 40% of everything we do every single day is pure autopilot. Today, we'll discuss the attention overload gap.

Why multitasking is an illusion for most of us and why more focus isn't always the answer to our distraction problem.

And it's not just about mindfulness anymore. Sure, being aware of when we're distracted is great. But how do we turn this into a practice that actually sticks?

Last but not least, a technique called scatter focus and why this deliberate boredom can actually help us solve complex problems that might otherwise increase our stress and our workload.

If you want to know how I systemize networking, relationships and business development, well, for personal and professional networks, I use systems and tiny habits.

I'm teaching you how to do that for free in my course, 6 Minute Networking. Again, that's at JordanHarbinger.com slash course.

And by the way, most of the guests here on the show, they subscribe to the course and the newsletter. So come join us and you'll be in great company.

Now, here's Chris Bailey.

We do a fair bit of shows. In fact, we have multiple shows on productivity, focus and things like that. And you would think that we've heard it all, but as it turns out, there's a lot of different angles that you can come at focus and distraction with.

And hyper focus was pretty interesting for me, Chris, because it was a little shocking.

First of all, that we can work for an average of 40 seconds in front of our computer before getting distracted. And I thought, there's no way that's true. I'm going to time myself and I didn't really make it much further than that. And most of the time, I don't think I made it even that far.

So it was a little bit depressing. I hate throwing that word around, but I thought for sure I'm super productive.

Meanwhile, I'm in the first sentence of our interview. And I'm like, I better turn on the air conditioner. Let me open my phone. Oh, I have a notification. That's what happens. What's going on here?

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