A while ago I received an email from CEO and Founder of Coach.me Tony Stubblebine.

I am already a “no-notifications” kind of guy already but this really reaffirmed my thoughts.

Here’s a lay explanation of something important going on in your brain:

When you repeatedly exercise a neural pathway in your brain, the neural fibers in that pathway grow additional protective myelin. That’s learning.

The problem is that it takes sustained focus to trigger the myelin growth. Multi-tasking interrupts the trigger for myelin growth before it gets started. So, you think multi-tasking is a virtue because you’re working so hard, but, the reality is that you’re retarding your intelligence. While everyone else works and gets smarter, you stay put, your intelligence frozen in time. Notifications are alarms that trigger multi-tasking.”

If you really want to get something done. Get rid of the notifications and do the one thing you set out to do and do it right.