The attention you are spending without knowing it


Your calendar shows where your time goes. Nothing shows where your attention goes, and most senior leaders are spending the most expensive cognitive currency they have on tasks and contexts they would never approve if the cost were visible. There is a body of research from Princeton on cognitive bandwidth and from the broader cognitive neuroscience field on attention as a finite resource that has been mapping this pattern across high-stakes work for years. The finding that keeps showing up is...