Using the phone at work has now become commonplace. However, incidents also happen when by mistake those messages that were intended for a loved one are sent to the head. In addition to such accidents, the use of a smartphone leads to the fact that a person begins to make mistakes in work. Continuous text messaging adversely affects our productivity.
According to psychotherapists, productivity reaches its peak when a person is completely immersed in activity. And the phone distracts and takes us out of this state; we often have to interrupt the thought process.
Of course, it is impossible to completely refuse to use the phone during the working day. But to reduce its negative impact on our activities is quite real. To do this, you need to identify and eliminate what prevents focus.
Automatic email verification disrupts productivity
Constantly checking mail and reading letters, we are distracted from what surrounds us at the moment. Especially this contributes to viewing photos. Of course, the ability to take a picture anywhere and anytime, then to remember certain events, is the advantage of a smartphone. But it makes us forget about the present.
Social networks distract from your own life and fulfill your tasks
Social networks fuel our obsession with the lives of others. It also allows us to share our events with subscribers, thereby taking the time and distracting us from moving forward.
SMS prevent you from focusing on your activities
By sending SMS, we focus on what the recipient does. At the same time, we digress from our own activities and what we need to do. With the phone in hand, we have no time to think about our activities.
The phone does not allow you to stay alone with yourself
With applications on smartphones, we cannot be left alone. Using the phone, we can always be in touch with all friends and relatives and constantly communicate with them. There is no time left for ourselves to think and understand what we could do instead.
Productivity apps not only help you complete tasks, but also interfere with that.
Some smartphone apps are actually useful. But you can not rely solely on them, otherwise you can get the opposite effect due to the fact that we do not need to think, because this is what the application does for us.
Focus on notifications is very distracting
Constantly distracted when application notifications or text messages arrive, we lose the ability to timely complete the work we have begun. Experts recommend turning off notifications for social networks that are only distracting and most often do not indicate something urgent.
We cannot stop opening one application after another
Applications, the Internet and other functions of the smartphone distract us from the main tasks. We rarely go online or look at the phone to solve one specific problem. Checking the weather, we decide to look at the same time email, read messages or some article. All this distracts and reduces productivity.
The blue light emitted from the phone screen interferes with normal sleep
Experts say that the blue light emitted by the device can affect our sleep. Radiation disrupts the gland, which is responsible for the production of melatonin - a hormone that regulates sleep and wake cycles. Finding a telephone by the bed can interfere with a good rest.And this, in turn, will affect the mood, energy and ability to concentrate and perform tasks.
The ability to learn about everything instantly makes it unnecessary to think
We do not have to think about anything or ask ourselves questions, since we can always get the answer to any question right away. This eliminates the need to think and prevents the development of imagination.
