References:

1. Sophie Leroy - coined the term attention residue.

Insights:

1. Rapidly shifting attention has an impact on our ability to process information effectively.
2. What we have previously spent our attention on can interfere with our ability to focus on subsequent tasks or actions.
3. Attention residue is an outcome of multitasking, that hinders performance on current tasks.
4. The more our attention switches in a day, the lower our productivity.
5. Even after stopping an activity, 'residue' from that task can stay on your mind and interfere with the following activities.

Insights:

1. People require some level of arousal, or stress, for good performance.
2. The Yerkes-Dodson Law is represented by an inverse-U curve - the height being performance and the X-axis representing stress.
3. Arousal can be positive (feeling alert after exercise) or negative (highly stressed) for performance.

Principles:

1. Take breaks to walk or work on simpler tasks