4. Optimize Your Environment
The environment you work in affects your focus.
To optimize your focus:
◦ Eliminate visual distractions
◦ Reduce noise levels or use noise-cancelling headphones
◦ Adjust the lighting to reduce eye strain
56
896 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
Similar ideas to 4. Optimize Your Environment
A healthy work environment: consider your weaknesses
- Make a list of the things that knock you off your game. What stuff consistently distract you or pull you away from your seat? Kids crying, a TV playing? Consider noise-cancelling headphones.
- What do you feel would help you in your day today? Or what do you reach fo...
A Distraction-Free Environment
A distraction is anything that is competing for your attention and unrelated to the work you're doing at the moment.
- Visual distraction: If you're working in one application and you see a notification pop up, that is a visual distraction.
- Auditory distraction: An...
Noise and productivity
If you can’t find a spot that’s silent, noise cancelling headphones or music that drowns out speech can help regain that focus, especially if you work in shared spaces or offices.
The sounds around you and the music you listen to can have a huge impact on your productivity.
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates