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7 Hacks to Stay Productive In Today’s Distracted World

Youssef Hosni
16 min readOct 17, 2022

How to stay focused and productive in today's distracted world

The world around us has become more distracting than ever before. We’re constantly bombarded with information and opportunities for distraction, making it challenging to stay productive in our day-to-day lives. If you struggle to stay productive no matter how hard you try, you’re not alone. Keeping focused in this distracted world is a challenge for many people. In fact, the average person checks their phone once every 10 minutes — that’s about 200 times per day!

At this point, we all know that being connected to social media all the time is not good for us, but it’s so tempting to just turn off our notifications and keep checking them every hour. In doing so, we’re actively choosing to create a distracting environment for ourselves. The solution to this problem is not as simple as deleting your accounts and staying offline permanently (although that might be the best idea). Luckily, there are lots of ways to stay on track and get more done each day.

Nowadays Knowledge workers are more productive than ever thanks to access to powerful software and collaboration tools. But with the rise of social media, mobile devices, and other digital distractions, staying on task has become a challenge. A recent study found that the average knowledge worker now spends nearly 11 hours a day working — nearly triple the amount of time they spent in 1962. Clearly, we’re working more than ever before — but we’re not…

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Youssef Hosni
Youssef Hosni

Written by Youssef Hosni

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