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The goal of Productive Meditation is to take a period in which you’re occupied physically, but not mentally – walking, jogging, driving, showering – and focus your attention on a single well-defined professional problem
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Develop Deep Thinking by practicing Productive Meditation
- Identify daily activities in which you are physically occupied, but mentally available
- Like walking, jogging, showering, brushing teeth, cleaning your home, etc.
- While engaging in such activities, focus your attention on a specific problem you want to solve
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Benefits of Productive Meditation
- Ability to deeply contemplate and work through your top challenges
- Helps in directing and focusing your attention
- Trains you to ignore distractions
- Practice leads to develop Deep Thinking abilities
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