Focus sprint
Subject in Self-Improvement
Focus sprint has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Sahar YousefCognitive neuroscientist at UC Berkeley and founder of the Becoming Superhuman Lab, specializing in productivity and cognitive neuroplasticity
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
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
Podcasts
- The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 1 episode
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.