Dr. Gloria Mark: Find Focus, Fight Distraction

FranklinCovey On Leadership with Scott Miller

FranklinCovey

Business, Management

4.9 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Stay more focused in an age where there is more demand on our attention than ever before. Dr. Gloria Mark is a leading expert on human attention and the impacts of technology. Dr. Mark shares her research on the different "attentional states" people experience - focused attention, rote attention, boredom, and frustration - and the importance of balancing these states throughout the day to maintain productivity and well-being. Manage Your Energy to Do Your Job Well: To identify areas where you're putting yourself at risk of burnout, answer the questions in our guide, then choose one good self-care habit you can start practicing this week.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's Twice Weekly podcast on leadership with Scott Miller.
0:16.4	That's me. I am privileged now after six years and 400 episodes to continue to be serving as your host for this podcast that airs on both Tuesdays and Fridays, both in audio and video format.
0:28.2	You know Franklin Covey as the world's most trusted leadership firm, co-founded by the iconic author Dr. Stephen R. Covey, a personal hero of mine, and millions of people. He wrote
0:39.2	the book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People amongst many books that has sold, I think,
0:43.8	north of 60 million copies. And now Franklin Covey helps literally thousands of organizations
0:49.5	build high-performance cultures of trust with great leaders. So, twice a week, we find and interview
0:56.7	people that are dedicated to common missions. How do you become a better leader inside your
1:02.5	organization, whether you are an entrepreneur, an entrepreneur, an entrepreneur, a solopreneur,
1:06.6	whether you're in the C-suite or a frontline first-time leader. Perhaps you're not a formal leader, but you're a culture carrier.
1:13.2	Maybe you're in-between careers and you're leading your family.
1:17.0	Our passion and goal is to make you more highly effective,
1:20.5	to have you become more likely to accomplish what matters most to you.
1:25.1	Today, we have a fantastic guest. She is a renowned authority on our
1:30.8	attention. I think it's not a surprise that all of us have an onslaught of attention grabbers
1:37.8	coming our way. If you are employed, like me, you have probably multiple social media accounts,
1:43.0	multiple email accounts, you have text and social media accounts, multiple email accounts.
1:44.8	You have text and messaging, and it's just a expanding, is it not, assault on your attention.
1:52.7	Her name is Dr. Gloria Mark.
1:54.7	She has authored the book Attention Span, a groundbreaking way to restore balance, happiness, and productivity. She serves currently as
2:03.6	the Chancellor's Professor of Informatics at the University of California and Irvine, and has been a
2:10.2	visiting senior researcher at Microsoft at a variety of organizations around the world. You're going to
2:16.4	learn a lot about how to set some
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