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Multitasking attentional focus cognitive readiness Feb 07, 2024

It’s the start of your day.

So, you check on your emails. You’ve cleaned up quite a few with responses, deletes, and folder moves.

Next you jump back on the presentation that needs to be done by the end of the day. You’ve typed a few more slides, found a couple of good pictures,...

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Metacognition attentional focus cognitive readiness Nov 29, 2023

Charlie had his typical Monday morning, two reoccurring meetings back-to-back.

The first was his department’s update meeting. Plenty of words, lots of talking, and a big spreadsheet lighting the room from the projector. After that, on to the second meeting for one of his ongoing projects....

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Situational Awareness attentional focus cognitive readiness Sep 20, 2023

“The office feels empty”, Rachel thought to herself. “Oh well, maybe a lot of folks are just out.”

In fact the whole week felt empty with fewer interruptions than normal. That’s not too bad, she got a lot done and was feeling good going into the weekend.

As the day...

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Mindfulness attentional focus cognitive readiness Jul 26, 2023

Mindfulness is not meditation.

I believe a lot of people think mindfulness is meditation so they don’t have to do it. They think to themselves that it’s to mystical or woo-woo, they don’t associate themselves with those things, so now they don’t have to practice...

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Attentional Focus attentional focus cognitive readiness Jun 14, 2023

To help remember the four categories of cognitive readiness, we use ACES. This is not only a good way to remember but a good way to understand as one category feeds into the next particularly well, in this order. The A and first category is Attentional Focus.

Attentional focus is the focus of an...

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