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“Distraction, at its core, is this: confusion about what matters."
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Taking care of distractions
You can build a productive system that takes care of some distractions whilst practicing meta-attention:
- Design your immediate work environment to support deep work
- Keep one tab at a time
- Work in springs of 30 minutes at a time
- Tak...
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Meta-attention
...or, better still, attention to attention: learning to become more aware of the things that consistently distract you.
To become more aware of the many distractions working against you, start tracking your attention.
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Attention to attention and productivity
Applied to productivity, it’s a time efficiency practice that brings your awareness to everything that’s trying to take your attention to the task at hand.
When you practice meta-attention, you stay in observation mode: noticing distractions as they interrupt your deep work...
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“The antidote for mind-wandering is meta-awareness, attention to attention itself, as in the ability to notice that you are not noticing what you should, and correcting your focus.”
DANIEL GOLEMAN
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Multitasking
Living in a space of constant half-attention causes our brain to lose focus.
Solution: Adopt a work schedule designed around single-tasking. for that, learn to prioritize. Because distraction might actually be just confusion about what matters.
Revisit your priorities
Busyness is, at its core, about misplaced priorities.
Determine again what are the most significant contributions you can offer this world. And schedule your time around those first.
“Good judgment is, above all else, about being effective at achieving what matters—not what matters in the moment, but what matters in life.”
SHANE PARRISH
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