Distraction reshapes the quality of everything you do

The third leading cause of death in the United States of America. Prescription mistakes. If it were a disease, prescription mistakes would have been the third leading cause of death.

This is people inside.

Hospitals getting the wrong medication or the wrong dosage of medication because nurses are distracted. They're dosing out medication and someone taps them on the shoulder and says, hey.

Margaret, what about this? And this patient?

And by the time they figure out what's going on, they by mistake gave a patient the wrong dosage or the wrong medication altogether. A group of nurses at UCSF one day decided to tackle this challenge. The solution was plastic vests that told their colleagues, drug round in progress, do not disturb. That's what reduced prescription mistakes by 88%. Because now they could finally focus. They could concentrate on the task at hand, one patient at a time.

And we kind of.

Do this ourselves. We go about our day and say, oh, I'm doing fine. I'm kind of, you know, getting things done. I'm, I'm working, I'm. And we don't realize how much better our work output would be, how much better our lives would be if we worked without distraction.