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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 and quickly derail them before they turn your single-tasking habit into multitasking. As you notice the distractions, you refuse to react and return to focus mode.
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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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“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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Always appreciate the time you get, because you never know how much longer it`ll last.
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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
Tips to practice Mindfulness
Meditate to calm your nervous system
Meditation as a practice is useful to tune into awareness and to calm your nervous system.
To start, take a minute or two to pay attention to where your mind wanders. When you're able to begin noticing problematic situations through the practice of awareness, you can stop ...
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