[9급 국가직 영어 2025년 16번]

Schedule your time in a way that relegates distracting activities, such as news consumption and social-media scanning, to prescribed times.

When you learn to drive, you are taught to maintain a level of situational awareness that is wide enough to help you anticipate problems but not so wide that it distracts you. The same goes for your project. ( ① ) You need to know what’s going on around you that might affect your life and work, but not what is irrelevant to these things. ( ② ) I am not advocating a “full ostrich” model of ignoring the outside world entirely. ( ③ ) Rather, I mean to recommend ordering your information intake so that extraneous stuff doesn’t eat up your attention. ( ④ ) Perhaps you could decide to read the news for 30 minutes in the morning and vegetate* on social media for 30 minutes at the end of the day.

* vegetate: 하는 일 없이 지내다