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“The sensation of being alive in the early twenty-first century consisted of the sense that our ability to pay attention—to focus—was cracking and breaking.”
JOHANN HARI
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The Attentional Pathogenic Culture
We now live in ‘an attentional pathogenic culture’ – an environment in which sustained and deep focus is extremely hard for all of us, and you have to swim upstream to achieve it. It is not your fault you cannot focus.
Attention spans are decreasing at the time we need them...
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Three Ways Task Switching Degrades Your Focus
- Switching cost - You lose focus switching between tasks
- Screw-up effect. When you switch between tasks, errors that wouldn’t have happened otherwise start to creep in.
- Creativity drain - In the long run, you are likely to be much less creative.
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Improve Your Attention
- Use pre-commitment to stop switching tasks so much.
- Don't listen to negative self-talk - You’re lazy, you’re not good enough, what’s wrong with you?
- Take extended times away from social media.
- Embrace mind-wandering. Letting your mind wander is not a crumbli...
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Social Media Negativity
- On average, we will look at something negative and outrageous a lot more than something peaceful and calm
- Every word of moral outrage increases the chances of retweets on Twitter and words that increased retweet rates are attack, bad, blame
- Social media sites are designed to ...
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Importance Of Sleep
- The less you sleep, the more your world blurs in every way – the ability to focus, ability to think deeply, ability to make connections
- During sleep, your brain cleans itself of waste that has accumulated during the day
- During sleep, your energy levels are restored and replen...
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"Empathy is one of the most complex forms of attention we have – and the most precious. Many of the most important advances in human history have been advances in empathy."
JOHANN HARI
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Pre-Commitment Is Successful
Resolving clearly to do something and making a pledge to stick to it helps you focus.
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“In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment.”
JOHANN HARI
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
JOHANN HARI
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Aware Of The Now
Being in the now, and not letting your mind wander, will ensure we are living life to the fullest, in the present moment. If we keep our minds engrossed in imaginary future scenarios, we would not be able to pay full attention to the needs of the present moment.
Be here now, and feel t...
Avoid attention leaks
Our attention and ability to focus in the moment are very limited. Our devices, with all their notifications and messages, create a false sense of urgency.
Ask yourself: How often are any of these interruptions truly urgent?
Why productivity is outdated
Productivity became popular in the early 20th century as a way of optimising work in agriculture and manufacturing. A knowledge worker in the 21st century has very little in common with agricultural or manufacturing work.
Productivity made sense as a measu...
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