<p>From <ahref="https://admiredleadership.substack.com/p/once-interrupted-give-it-your-full">Once Interrupted, Give It Your Full Attention - Admired Leadership</a>:</p>
<p>Good leaders do their best to prevent distractions and avoid interruptions. </p>
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<p>But no matter how much planning goes into eliminating distractions and arranging the physical work environment to enhance focus, people (and pets) interrupt the flow. </p>
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Once interrupted, it often makes the most sense to give the source of the disturbance your full attention. If it’s going to take a few minutes to redeploy your focus anyway, why not achieve the equally important goal of doing what leaders are meant to do: focus on the problems and issues of others.
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<p>This really makes a lot of sense. Our brains will more-than-likely try to pull us back to whatever we were doing before the interruption (see <ahref="https://hbr.org/2020/10/why-your-brain-dwells-on-unfinished-tasks">the Zeigarnik effect</a>). However, if you follow your instincts on this, you have to go through the pain of another context switch whilst the thing that generated the interruption presumably remains unresolved.</p>
