This is my goal for this week: Focus, and no multi-tasking. When you answer that "emergency" text, you fall into someone else's drama. That's why every ping costs us money, and worse, a portion of our life. The Distraction Economy is working against you. An isolator used in the pharmaceutical industry should allow the operator to work in a fast, safe and ergonomic way. I wonder what Gernsbach would have invented if he were alive today? How about an incoming email? Tweet? Facebook notification? LinkedIn? To-do popup? Then there are the meeting requests.
A telephone bell or a door bell rings somewhere, which is sufficient, in nearly all cases, to stop the flow of thought." Some one slams a door in the house, and at once your trend of thought is disturbed. Even if the window is shut, street noises filter through, and distract your attention. In a magazine article about the gadget, he wrote: "Suppose you are sitting in your study or work room, ready for the task. It even had an oxygen tank to keep him feeling energized. The idea behind the invention was to completely isolate the wearer from audible and visual distractions – the helmet was soundproof, with narrow slits in the lenses to limit his field of view. He thus invented the Isolator, pictured above.
Writer Hugo Gernsbach was troubled by workplace distractions - even in 1925. Outside noises being eliminated, the worker can concentrate with ease upon the subject at hand." Beating Interruptions "The author (Hugo Gernsbach) at work in his private study aided by the Isolator.