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http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170925-the-surprising-tricks-to-help-you-focus-at-work

By Caroline Williams卡洛琳·威廉姆斯

25 September 2017

互聯網上充斥著各種各樣的建議，教給我們如何在面對大量干擾因素的時候集中注意力。但其中的很多方法要麼根本不切實際，要麼把你排除在辦公室的環境之外，甚至導致你擔心錯過什麼東西而心煩意亂。我們中有多少人"始終覺得自己所做的事情鼓舞人心且樂趣十足"，又有多少人能夠心甘情願地關掉社交網路，或者一整天帶著耳機，甚至離線工作？

The internet is bursting with advice on how to concentrate amid a sea of distractions. But many of them are either wildly unrealistic or leave you out of the office loop and distracted by thoughts of what you might be missing. How many of us can “always find what you do inspiring and fun” or would be comfortable turning off social media, spending the day wearing headphones, or working offline?

然而，更重要的或許在於，其中的很多建議跟心理學家發現的人類思維運作方式沒有多大關係

Perhaps more importantly, however, many of these tips bear little relation to what psychologists are discovering about the way the human mind works.

事實上，我們認為有助於集中精力的很多事情，反而違背了大腦的自然運作方式。既然如此，我們如何利用注意力科學來完成更多工？我們經常聽到的建議中有沒有真正有用的呢？

Many of the things we think we should be doing to help us concentrate actually work against the way that our brain naturally operates. So what can we learn from the science of focus to get more done, and do any of common tips actually work?