🧠🎧Understanding Selective Attention

• Though we would like to, we cannot learn everything and do everything.
• We need to be selective in our choices while consuming content from diverse sources, provided we find it enjoyable and worthwhile.
• We have to say no to a thous...

1. Take breaks: instead of trying to get rid of distractions, you should concentrate the energy you put into them during set breaks.
2. Schedule tight deadlines: pick your most important tasks, the ones that require deep work, and then you schedule them in a shorter time span...

As we read a book or blog, our mind constructs a mental model that helps us to make sense of what we are reading. If we can't focus, we'll have holes in our understanding.

To key to better understanding is deep reading and thinking. We can have great returns on all the information ...