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Causes of Distraction
All human behavior is cued by either external or interal triggers.
The cues that we get from our environment like dings or pings are external triggers. These prompt us to check our emails or answer a text.
Internal triggers are cues that we get from within ourselves, like when we're hungry we feel the need to get something to eat.
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Distractions Are Harmful
When we become distracted we lose our focus and it interrupts our attention. When distractions become a habit, we are then unable to sustain the focus required to finish the tasks efficiently.
We also lose time for our friends and loved ones, we miss out on cultiva...
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The Opposite of Distraction
There is no exact opposite for distraction when you try to look it up, however it does have near anotnyms such as assurance, certainty, and convictio. However, these words don't really move away from distraction.
Therefore there is a proposal that "traction" be the opposite of distraction.
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Becoming Indistractable
- Master your internal triggers. You need to learn how your behaviors are driven. Assess yourself and your need to escape discomfort.
- Make time for traction. It is important to reevaluate what are the things that are important to you, to timebo...
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Temptations and Interruptions
Distractions can be either:
- Temptations: When we take a break from work to check social media
- Interruptions: When we get annoyed or repeated emails disrupting our workflow.
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3.Identifying our triggers
- A feedback loop compromises four stages: evidence, relevance, consecuence and action.
- They can be direct or indirect: direct triggers have no intermediate steps between the event and your response while indirect ones takea more.
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Hooked To Technology
- Most of us check email too often, almost like a compulsive disorder. Just like any habit, there are internal cues, triggers and impulses that make us behave in a certain way with no conscious thought.
- We are using technology as a suppressant to our inner re...
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