What Sahar Yousef has said about Focus sprint
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 15, 2026
Sahar Yousef, Cognitive neuroscientist at UC Berkeley and founder of the Becoming Superhuman Lab, specializing in productivity and cognitive neuroplasticity, has been quoted on Focus sprint 2 times in 1 episode of The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, most recently on October 15, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Yousef says her lab's research shows focus sprints let people do up to twice as much work with fewer mistakes.
“has allowed people to do up to two times as much as they would otherwise do while also reducing the number of mistakes”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar Yousef (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 55:51
Yousef advises against wearing noise-cancelling headphones for more than three to four hours a day, recommending them only for focus sprints.
“I don't recommend listening to noise canceling or having noise canceling headphones on for more than three, four hours a day”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar Yousef (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 1:18:41
Episodes
Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefThe Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 h 14 min
Steven Bartlett and neuroscientist Sahar Yousef discuss phone addiction, tech design that hijacks attention, focus sprints, chronotypes, multitasking costs, and AI's threat to independent thinking.
Sahar Yousef on other topics
- Persuasive technology and engagement design · 3 quotes
- Artificial intelligence · 2 quotes
- Smartphone addiction · 1 quote
- Human multitasking · 1 quote
- Chronotype · 1 quote
- Rumination · 1 quote
- Brain breaks and boredom · 1 quote
- Task prioritization (MITs and LITs) · 1 quote