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Baughn comments on [Link] 3 Short Walking Breaks Can Reverse Harm From 3 Hours of Sitting - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 10 September 2014 10:26AM

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Comment author: Baughn 11 September 2014 11:01:17AM 4 points [-]

I'm reasonably sure it depends on the sort of interrupt. This is based on introspection, so it's not very reliable, but an interrupt that involves thinking about something different-but-similar is murder, while e.g. switching tracks entirely to reading a book doesn't seem to be nearly as much of a problem.

Getting up to take a walk is something else again; it doesn't actually break my concentration at all, I'll still be thinking about the same problems while walking.