How an iPad can save you a job!
.. anxiety and browser tab switching in the digital age
At your job and switching tabs because the work you’re doing is too complex and hard to understand?
You switch to the Java streams algorithm written by the software architect and stare at the screen for hardly two minutes before switching tabs to Facebook. Because the brain wants easy to consume information and procrastinates to not focus on that 1000x times more complex task of pressure present on your screen.
This addiction to switching browser tabs and reading through social media often comes with an additional desire to play your favorite song while working. But once you go to play that song you found that nice Quora article and there you go! In the office, right in the middle of work. Reading that article on how “Arnold Schwarzenegger switched his English accent to establish his career in America” for one full hour.
What are you working on — your boss is standing behind your chair!
That . Folks . is the moment you realize you’re unable to control your addition to switching tabs while working. You’ve lost your focus so much that every few minutes of any hard work required from you, you’re lost in the wonderland of lucrative internet content created for the purpose of luring you into it.
We’ve all been there. We know it. Its hard to stay on one tab on your laptop, so much so that sometimes we consider installing extensions which promise to ‘lock’ the social media sites or limit their usage to 15 minutes a day.
And that is exactly when your friend texts you telling you the Apple stocks have reached a buyable price! — welcome to another 1 hour of time travel :d
The solution!
The solution is simple.
Don’t rob the brain, give it both.
Its not cheating when you’re performing 100% at work — even if the songs are playing. Albeit on another screen.
Place an iPad along with your laptop. Open your favorite song on sound cloud on the iPad. and on the iPad you can also monitor your stocks, read the news, receive the iMsgs and read Medium once in a while or whatever it is.
Doing this .. your laptop will always be open to that one task you’re required to focus on, on your job! No tab switching .
Thus you’’ll not only feel more focused, you’ll be surprised at the end of the day that you never switched browser tabs on your work laptop! All you switched were songs on your iPad.
