Keeping too many browser tabs open floods your brain with stress hormones and kills focus. Closing them, along with clearing physical clutter, lowers cortisol and strengthens the neural circuits that help you finish what you start.
If you keep lots of tabs open on your laptop, let me tell you the science behind what that's doing to your brain and why you might want to close them. Visual disorganization and electronic clutter tires the brain, impairs memory and increases procrastination. Clutter in your physical and electronic space releases cortisol which is linked to stress and anxiety which also impairs learning. If you want to 10 times your productivity and work from a space of inspired action and passion then you need to clear your physical and electronic spaces. Research shows that clearing out the clutter increases focus, our ability to process information and boost productivity. Closing your tabs will also help you to stop procrastinating because every time you leave a tab open you're not finishing what you started. When you regularly close your tabs it will motivate you to do the things that you set out to do which will strengthen the brain areas responsible for finishing what you start which will help you in other areas of life as well as.
