Get rid of 'Continious Partial attention'——警惕"持续局部注意力"效率杀手

    ' Continious Partial attention'，简称CPA，中文有几种不同的翻译，比较典型的是“持续局部注意力”、“持续分心”这两种。其典型定义有以下几种：

    continuous partial attention n. A state in which most of one's attention is on a primary task, but where one is also monitoring several background tasks just in case something more important or interesting comes up.

    Continuous partial attention is that state most of us enter when we're in front of a computer screen, or trying to check out at the grocery store with a cellphone pressed to an ear — or blogging the proceedings of a conference while it's underway. We're aware of several things at once, shifting our attention to whatever's most urgent — perhaps the chime of incoming e-mail, or the beep that indicates the cellp