Ep12: Being a Great Dad with David Willans

The Working Parent Podcast

The BeingDads website where you can access past editions of David’s blog and also sign up for a weekly email drop is here:

https://www.beingdads.com/

David and Kerri discussed the amount of time it takes to get back into a task that requires focus when we are interrupted or switch tasks. Here is a link to the seminal study https://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/chi08-mark.pdf and this is an interview with one of the authors of the study https://www.fastcompany.com/944128/worker-interrupted-cost-task-switching. The answer is 23 minutes and 15 seconds although of course it is more nuanced than that and depends on the task and the person and various other factors. It is only one example of multiple studies on this phenomenon which finds that there is no such thing as multi-tasking. Instead, we switch between tasks and when these tasks are ones requiring lots of attention and focus it costs us time.

David mentioned a quote by Victor Frankl and this book:

https://uk.bookshop.org/books/man-s-search-for-meaning-the-classic-tribute-to-hope-from-the-holocaust-9781844132393/9781844132393

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