Eventually, if you keep hopping straight from one thing to another without taking a breather in between, “you start to get something called proactive interference
You can’t really stop thinking about something and start on the next thing. Taking breaks can reduce that and actually help you switch gears.”
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Which brings us to the ultimate gear-switching tool: the two-minute psychological buffer zone, a quick but powerful mental reset to give yourself before moving from one thing to the next.