Shopper's Guide•Focus & Energy

6 signs brain fog is killing your productivity

Summary: For most of a year I assumed I'd just got worse at my job. What was actually happening was that I'd stopped being able to hold one thing for more than a few minutes, and every workaround I'd built was hiding it from me.

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1. You open the laptop and pick the easy task

Not the important one. The one with a clear finish line. A whole morning can go this way and look productive from the outside while the thing that actually mattered sits untouched.

2. You read the same paragraph three times

It isn't comprehension. The words go in and nothing sticks to them. I started keeping a note of how many times I had to restart a document and stopped after the number got embarrassing.

3. Your best hour moved to 9pm

When the only time your head works properly is after everyone has stopped emailing, that's not a preference for night work. That's eight hours of the day you're not getting full value from.

4. You context-switch to feel like you're moving

Six tabs, three messages, nothing finished. The switching feels like momentum and produces nothing, and it's usually a symptom of not being able to hold one thing rather than having too much to do.

5. Coffee became maintenance rather than a lift

The cup stopped adding anything and started holding off a deficit. That's the point at which more of it isn't the answer, because you're paying interest rather than buying anything.

6. What helped was dosing it properly instead of more

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