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Accepting boredom

Accepting boredom

Learning to live with more boredom makes it easier for you to really feel present in every aspect of your life: work, relationships, and whatever else you want to do with your time that doesn't involve mindless scrolling on social media.

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How you define "productivity"

The way we define the concept of "productivity" really influences our perception.

For a lot of people, this word suggests somethingย cold and corporate, that speaks about efficiency and becoming a robot.

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The best productivity advice

It has to do with focus andย allows us toย accomplish everything we want to do in a smaller amount of time, so we have more time for whatโ€™s actually meaningful to us.

Becauseย being able to focus on things, we see more meaning in them.

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Hyperfocus vs scatterfocus

  • Hyperfocus: it means directing your attention outward. It's the most productive mode of our mind, whenย one task fills our full attention.
  • Scatterfocus: it meansย directing your attention inward. It'sย the most creative mode of our mind, whenย we deliberately let our mind wander.

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Weโ€™re wired for distraction

Weโ€™re wired for distraction

Soย we shouldnโ€™t be hard on ourselves.

Thereโ€™s a mechanism embedded within our mindโ€™s prefrontal cortex called the novelty bias, whereby, for every new, novel thing we direct our attention at, our mind rewards us with a hit of dopamine

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Being intentional

Being intentional

Weโ€™re perfectly productive when we accomplish what we intend to do.

An intention for a day could be to write a few pages. And if we accomplish that, weโ€™re perfectly productive. An intention for a day could also be to watch five episodes of a TV show and just relax. If we accomplish that, then weโ€™re perfectly productive then as well.

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