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The odds aren’t in your favor.
Unless you’re superhuman or you have a secret weapon, you’re probably going to get hacked in 2017.
What does this mean exactly? It means that you’ll have an amazing idea, but then the noise of life will sideline or sabotage you and you’ll fail to implement your idea.
Don’t believe me? Check out the stats.
Take smart phones for starters. On average people touch their phones 2,617 times a day!
I couldn’t believe it either. But it’s true according to a study conducted by the research firm Dscout (heavy users do 5,427 touches a day.)
Hold on. It gets worse.
The average person spends a total of five hours a day browsing the web and using apps. This equates to around a third of the time a person is awake, and is twice as often as many people realize.
Researchers also found smartphone use was typically confined to short bursts, with more than half of uses lasting less than 30 seconds. This means that people experience “distracted work” far more regularly than what Georgetown University computer-science professor Cal Newport’s calls “deep work.”
Many people justify distraction-filled living by claiming multi-tasking as the solution. But is it?
Multi-tasking is a myth.
The brain can only do 1 cognitive activity at a time. This phenomenon, more properly understood as switch-tasking, decreases productivity by up to 40%.
According to Forbes: “Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London studied 1,100 workers at a British company and found that multitasking with electronic media caused a greater decrease in IQ than smoking pot.”
Time to face the facts.
Most of us get “hacked” on a daily basis. Other people and things take control of our calendars. Our ideas stall our dreams slide.
Thankfully there is a solution.
In a society of increasing distractions, Unhackability is the new secret weapon used by those who’ve achieved the most success in relationships, business, athletics, and every other area.
