Your Ability to Focus Has Probably Peaked: Here's How to Stay Sharp - Deepstash
Your Ability to Focus Has Probably Peaked: Here's How to Stay Sharp

Your Ability to Focus Has Probably Peaked: Here's How to Stay Sharp

Curated from: betterhumans.coach.me

Ideas, facts & insights covering these topics:

4 ideas

·

2.89K reads

3

Explore the World's Best Ideas

Join today and uncover 100+ curated journeys from 50+ topics. Unlock access to our mobile app with extensive features.

Attention = Focusing + Ignoring

Attention = Focusing + Ignoring

Paying attention involves two separate distinct brain functions: 

  1. “enhancement” - our ability to focus on things that matter) 
  2. “suppression” - our ability to ignore the things that don’t. 

276

915 reads

Suppressing distraction gets harder with age

Suppressing distraction gets harder with age

Our ability to filter out distractions, not our concentration, diminishes with age. 

As we grow older we get more and more distracted. 

161

633 reads

Less visual clutter to eliminate distractions

Less visual clutter to eliminate distractions

When your eyes are closed, your brain isn’t working as hard to filter out visual information. So: 

  • Use one screen, one browser window, and one computer program at a time.
  • Keep your physical and virtual desktop tidy.

184

569 reads

Activities that boost focus

To increase our ability to concentrate try :

  • Exercise
  • Meditation 
  • Spending time in nature may help boost cognitive control
  • Coggnitive exercises & immersive action video games 

271

776 reads

IDEAS CURATED BY

aurora_aee

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness." - Schopenhauer

Aurora E.'s ideas are part of this journey:

How To Recover From Burnout

Learn more about health with this collection

Seeking support from others

Identifying the symptoms of burnout

Learning to say no

Related collections

Read & Learn

20x Faster

without
deepstash

with
deepstash

with

deepstash

Personalized microlearning

100+ Learning Journeys

Access to 200,000+ ideas

Access to the mobile app

Unlimited idea saving

Unlimited history

Unlimited listening to ideas

Downloading & offline access

Supercharge your mind with one idea per day

Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.

Email

I agree to receive email updates