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Why You Can't Stop Calculating Lost Productivity During Social Time

I'm American working in Athens and my Greek colleagues take a 30-minute coffee break that turns into 90 minutes and I sit there calculating all the work not getting done.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The mind has become a productivity computer that cannot turn off its calculations even in moments designed for human connection.

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