Education Elevation
Attention Residue
Every time you switch tasks, part of your brain stays behind — and you finish nothing at full power.
Grounded in the research on attention residue (Sophie Leroy, 2009)
the switch
You close the edit, open your texts, then try to read for class. Feels clean, like flipping channels. It isn't. Your brain doesn't snap off the old task the way you snap a laptop shut. A piece of you is still stuck in that timeline.
the residue
That leftover piece is attention residue. When you switch, part of your focus stays glued to the last thing — so you show up to the new task running on reduced cognitive capacity. You're physically here, mentally still ghosting the thing you just left.