✅ Checkpoint: Attention Foundations

By Better Wise

Quiz

  1. Which statement best describes attention residue?
    • The slow warm-up at the start of a focus session.
    • The physical tiredness you feel after a long focus session.
    • The ability to hold two tasks in parallel without losing quality.
    • The carryover of attention onto a previous task while you are supposedly working on a new one.
  2. You get a one-minute message while writing a report. Based on the lesson, what is a realistic return cost?
    • No cost, as long as you reply quickly.
    • About one minute, the same as the interruption.
    • A few seconds, because the message was short.
    • About 10 to 20 minutes to fully return to depth.
  3. The shortcut that says a distraction taking more than about ____ seconds to reach is often skipped is called the 20-second rule.
  4. Which change best follows the two levers of environment design?
    • Put the phone in another room and keep the working document open in front of you.
    • Redesign your whole workspace in one weekend.
    • Rely on willpower to ignore the phone when it buzzes.
    • Keep the phone face down on the desk during focus blocks.
  5. Which notification source belongs in Tier 1 (live)?
    • An on-call page where a 30-minute delay would cause real harm.
    • A product update newsletter.
    • A social media activity digest.
    • A routine work message from a teammate.
  6. A complete notification rule states the trigger, the channel, and the committed ____ time.
  7. What is the escape hatch when you get genuinely stuck during an AI-free thinking period?
    • End the block and check your messages.
    • Search for an answer summary and continue.
    • Write the question down and leave it for later.
    • Open a chat window briefly to unblock yourself.
  8. Draft your one-page notification policy and one daily AI-free thinking block. Then evaluate your draft against the criteria below.

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