When a spacecraft built for humans ventures into deep space, it requires an array of features to keep it and a crew inside safe.

Introduction

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify"> As humans travel farther from Earth for longer missions, the systems that keep them alive must be highly reliable while taking up minimal mass and volume. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Even small systems have to function reliably to support life in space, from a working toilet to an automated fire suppression system or exercise equipment that helps astronauts stay in shape to counteract the zero-gravity environment in space </li></ul>

Systems to Live and Breathe

<ul><li>The farther into space a vehicle ventures, the more capable its propulsion systems need to be to maintain its course on the journey with precision and ensure its crew can get home.</li></ul>

Proper Propulsion

<ul><li>Going to the Moon is no easy task, and it’s only half the journey. The farther a spacecraft travels in space, the more heat it will generate as it returns to Earth. Getting back safely requires technologies that can help a spacecraft endure speeds 30 times the speed of sound and heat twice as hot as molten lava or half as hot as the sun.</li></ul>

The Ability to Hold Off the Heat

<ul><li>As a spacecraft travels on missions beyond the protection of Earth’s magnetic field, it will be exposed to a harsher radiation environment than in low-Earth orbit with greater amounts of radiation from charged particles and solar storms that can cause disruptions to critical computers, avionics and other equipment.</li><li>Humans exposed to large amounts of radiation can experience both acute and chronic health problems ranging from near-term radiation sickness to the potential of developing cancer in the long-term.</li></ul>

Radiation Protection

<ul><li>Spacecraft venturing far from home go beyond the Global Positioning System (GPS) in space and above communication satellites in Earth orbit. To talk with mission control in Houston, Orion will use all three of NASA’s space communications networks.As it rises from the launch pad and into cislunar space, Orion will switch from the Near Earth Network to the Space Network, made possible by the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, and finally to the Deep Space Network that provides communications for some of NASA’s most distant spacecraft. </li></ul>

Constant Communication and Navigation

As humans travel farther from Earth for longer missions, the systems that keep them alive must be highly reliable while taking up minimal mass and volume.

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People who multitask are more easily distracted, less productive, score lower on tests for recalling information, and make more errors.

Our brains weren’t built to multitask.Multitasking makes you dumb

Multitasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.”

It is important to take the most important action per time. Here are few things you should know about multitasking.

Multitasking 

I wake up at 5:30 A.M every single day, consistently, and the first thing that I do, after making up my bed, is to exercise for at least 30–40 minutes. This makes me happier and more satisfied with my results and achievements. Waking up early means getting most of the work done as soon as you start your day. This sets a routine for you. Doing a high-intensity workout early in the morning can kill laziness and make you feel productive.

Wake up Early and Exercise

Dividing your daily work and important tasks into 2 or more parts helps you tackle them very easily and effectively. I divide all my important and critical tasks into 3 categories — difficult, medium, and easy. The difficult types of work used to be done in the morning itself, because I found myself most energetic in the morning. The medium type of work is to be done in the evenings when I find myself a bit lazy. And the easiest types of work must be tackled during the night or during the late evening.

Divide your Work into 3 parts

Make a proper Timetable or a To-Do-List to tackle your crucial and most important tasks every single day. It is the most effective practice that I follow every single day and this really helps in tackling various tasks every day. A proper timetable or To-Do is a good way to keep a track of your daily routine. A proper timetable or To-Do is a good way to keep a track of your daily routine. Tick off the work you’ve completed and you’ll feel you’ve been productive. Tick off the work you’ve completed and you’ll feel you’ve been productive.

Make a Proper timetable

Stop wasting time on social media following people who don’t motivate you to get back to work. There are various types of people, celebrity stars, Influencers, creators, etc who are giving such friendly, positive and motivating content every single day. Follow them. Know their strengths and get inspiration from them.

Follow People Who Motivates you to do more

Workspace is a very important place that you must take care of if you want to be more productive in life. Update or manage your workspace if you find something irrelevant or not use things in your table. Make your workspace clean and full of useful and productive things. Get rid and eliminate of things that you find useless. Your workspace is where you spend most of your time, so make sure it makes you feel motivated to work. In case you are bored of your workspace, shift it to a new room, preferably that has windows for fresh air.

Change your Workspace

Save your energy as much as you can. Do not get angry, frustrated, or stressed out. These all will drain your energy and will make you lazy and off from work. Eat nutritious and healthy foods to get some more energy so that you can feel refreshed and can tackle your work very easily. Get a Shower whenever you feel sleepy. Avoid Procrastination.

Save Energy

Divide your goals into yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily goals to make them seem achievable. Plan real-time actions to achieve those goals within the deadline you’ve set for them.

Divide your Goals

You are not a robot, right? You have to take small breaks from your work.I prefer following the Pomodoro technique, which says that you work for 25 mins, have a laser-sharp focus, and then take 5–7 mins of break. Then again you continue this cycle again and again. This is a very effective technique that you can follow as well to take breaks from your heavy loads of work.You can also take small breaks between your work to feel relaxed and productive. Plan trips in a month or so, to feel rejuvenated and get back to work with fresh energy.

Take a break

Productivity is something which I found, personally, exciting. I can no longer work for even 5 mins if I am not in the chain or the behavior of productiveness. So productivity and being productive…

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Maintaining focus nowadays is harder than ever before. Your pocket vibrates at any moment because you're getting ten new emails, social media has all these notifications, the phone is ringing, your kids need help, and your colleagues are asking you to chime in on some memo. However, maintaining focus is more critical than before. The most productive people and companies create ways to manage their minds so they can focus on what's important and ignore distractions. The way they do this is by building mental models.

Using mental models to maintain focus

Essentially, productive people tell themselves stories about what they expect to see. Engaging in this inner dialogue about what they think should be happening allows their brain to figure out what to focus on and ignore. For example, researchers found that the best NICU nurses created a picture in their minds of what they thought the perfect baby should look like. Then, walking through the unit, they would notice when babies didn't match that picture and investigate in good time to save the babies' lives.

Mental models

People are much better at maintaining their focus, not reacting and not getting distracted because they've envisioned what they expect to occur ahead of time. So when riding the subway to work, they envision what the day will be like and what they expect to happen at that meeting. Or they have a picture in their mind of what it's going to be like to deal with the kids while making dinner.  The result is that their subconscious knows what to focus on when their pocket buzzes.

How people can maintain focus 

Build Mental Models to Enhance Your Focus Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all get the same amount of hours in a day. Some people definitely seem to have more. Writers like Steven King and James Patterson, performers like Beyoncé, filmmakers who release a new blockbuster or shoe-gazing comedy every year, and world leaders who are across all of humanity’s problems. Even some humble ordinary folks seem to get more done than appears possible, but 24 hours is the contract our planet signed with the sun so there it is, cut and dried. In these distracted and competitive times, there is an overwhelming thirst for knowledge on productivity and life hacks to beat procrastination. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg finds it incredibly problematic that even though we have more tools and digital assistance than ever in achieving our goals, that same luxury interrupts us more often and makes it so much harder to focus. In researching his latest book Smarter Faster Better Duhigg spent an inordinate amount of time (well-structured time, we assume) talking to over 400 people about productivity, collecting several hundred tips and hacks, many of which contradicted one another. So what reliably and consistently sets ultra-productive people and organizations apart? One of the key commonalities he found was the ability of some people to selectively focus. It turns out the most efficient among us are constantly prioritizing and asking themselves: what are the goals that I should be chasing after right now? According Duhigg, this process starts with mental imagery, what he calls building a ‘mental model’ in your head at the start of each day, something Duhigg now dedicates his morning commute time to. He advises that we spend that time picturing what our day will look like – what do you need to get done? What are the events you can expect? How will you go about doing them? We are surrounded by the needs of others all day long, whether it’s a boss, colleagues, family or friends, email requests or social notifications, and it’s our natural impulse to react immediately when called upon. A notification 'ding!' is tragically pavlovian. Many of us will get a text while we’re busy and send a quick reply that we later regret, or blurt out an unsatisfactory answer to a boss who puts us on the spot. People with a mental model in their minds, on the other hand, already know what to focus on, and have the ability to say or ‘Can we discuss that at a later time?’ or simply leave a text or email to sit for a while. "The more that I have thought through what’s about to occur, the more that I have a strong vision in my mind of what I should expect and anticipate, the more my subconscious is going to be able to decide this is what you should focus on." Instead of reacting immediately, your time is actually much better spent taking a couple of minutes to make a better decision about where your focus should go. Charles Duhigg's most recent book is Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHARLES DUHIGG: Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and the author of The Power of Habit. He is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Charles Duhigg: Nowadays it’s incredibly hard to stay focused. There’s so many distractions around us at any given moment. Your pocket vibrates at any given moment because you’re getting ten new emails and on social media there’s all these new notifications and the phone is ringing and your kids need help and your colleagues are coming up because you are working in an open office plan and they’re asking you to chime in on some memo. Maintaining focus nowadays is harder than ever before. But it’s way more critical too. One of the things that we know about the most productive people and the most productive companies is that they create ways to enhance their focus. They manage their mind in such a way that they’re able to focus on what’s important and ignore distractions much better. And the way that they do this is by what’s known as building mental models. Essentially telling themselves stories about what they expect to see, engaging in this kind of inner dialogue about what they think should be happening... Read the full transcript at https://bigthink.com/videos/charles-duhigg-on-training-your-mind-to-stay-focused

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We all get the same amount of hours in a day. Some people definitely seem to have more. Writers like Steven King and James Patterson, performers like Beyoncé, filmmakers who release a new blockbuster or shoe-gazing comedy every year, and world leaders who are across all of humanity’s problems. Even some humble ordinary folks seem to get more done than appears possible, but 24 hours is the contract our planet signed with the sun so there it is, cut and dried.
In these distracted and competitive times, there is an overwhelming thirst for knowledge on productivity and life hacks to beat procrastination. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg finds it incredibly problematic that even though we have more tools and digital assistance than ever in achieving our goals, that same luxury interrupts us more often and makes it so much harder to focus.
In researching his latest book Smarter Faster Better Duhigg spent an inordinate amount of time (well-structured time, we assume) talking to over 400 people about productivity, collecting several hundred tips and hacks, many of which contradicted one another. So what reliably and consistently sets ultra-productive people and organizations apart?
One of the key commonalities he found was the ability of some people to selectively focus. It turns out the most efficient among us are constantly prioritizing and asking themselves: what are the goals that I should be chasing after right now? According Duhigg, this process starts with mental imagery, what he calls building a ‘mental model’ in your head at the start of each day, something Duhigg now dedicates his morning commute time to. He advises that we spend that time picturing what our day will look like – what do you need to get done? What are the events you can expect? How will you go about doing them? We are surrounded by the needs of others all day long, whether it’s a boss, colleagues, family or friends, email requests or social notifications, and it’s our natural impulse to react immediately when called upon. A notification 'ding!' is tragically pavlovian. Many of us will get a text while we’re busy and send a quick reply that we later regret, or blurt out an unsatisfactory answer to a boss who puts us on the spot. People with a mental model in their minds, on the other hand, already know what to focus on, and have the ability to say or ‘Can we discuss that at a later time?’ or simply leave a text or email to sit for a while. "The more that I have thought through what’s about to occur, the more that I have a strong vision in my mind of what I should expect and anticipate, the more my subconscious is going to be able to decide this is what you should focus on." Instead of reacting immediately, your time is actually much better spent taking a couple of minutes to make a better decision about where your focus should go.
Charles Duhigg's most recent book is Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business.
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CHARLES DUHIGG:
Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and the author of The Power of Habit. He is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Charles Duhigg: Nowadays it’s incredibly hard to stay focused. There’s so many distractions around us at any given moment. Your pocket vibrates at any given moment because you’re getting ten new emails and on social media there’s all these new notifications and the phone is ringing and your kids need help and your colleagues are coming up because you are working in an open office plan and they’re asking you to chime in on some memo. Maintaining focus nowadays is harder than ever before. But it’s way more critical too. One of the things that we know about the most productive people and the most productive companies is that they create ways to enhance their focus. They manage their mind in such a way that they’re able to focus on what’s important and ignore distractions much better. And the way that they do this is by what’s known as building mental models.
Essentially telling themselves stories about what they expect to see, engaging in this kind of inner dialogue about what they think should be happening...
Read the full transcript at https://bigthink.com/videos/charles-duhigg-on-training-your-mind-to-stay-focused

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“Money is not going to solve all of your problems, but it’s going to solve all of your money problems.”“Money is how we transfer wealth. Money is social credits. It is the ability to have credits and debits of other people’s time.”“Money buys you freedom in the material world. It’s not going to make you happy, it’s not going to solve your health problems, it’s not going to make your family great, it’s not going to make you fit, it’s not going to make you calm. But it will solve a lot of external problems.”“Making money is not a thing you do—it’s a skill you learn.”

Money vs Wealth

I’ve learned a few things, and some principles. I try to lay them out in a timeless manner, where you can figure it out for yourself. Because at the end of the day, I can’t quite teach anything. I can only inspire you and maybe give you a few hooks so you can remember.

“If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.”“Money is not the root of all evil; there’s nothing evil about it. But the lust for money is bad.”“Lusting for money is bad for us because it is a bottomless pit. It will always occupy your mind. If you love money, and you make it, there’s never enough. There is never enough because the desire is turned on and doesn’t turn off at some number.”“You make money to solve your money and material problems. I think the best way to stay away from this constant love of money is to not upgrade your lifestyle as you make money.”

Despising Wealth

“You don’t get rich by spending your time to save money. You get rich by saving your time to make money.““Everybody who really makes money at some point owns a piece of a product, a business, or some IP.”“Usually, the real wealth is created by starting your own companies or even by investing.”“Without ownership, your inputs are very closely tied to your outputs.”“Getting rich is about knowing what to do, who to do it with, and when to do it. It is much more about understanding than purely hard work. Yes, hard work matters, and you can’t skimp on it. But it has to be directed in the right way.”

Building Wealth

“I’m always ‘working.’ It looks like work to others, but it feels like play to me. And that’s how I know no one can compete with me on it.”“My motivation has shifted from being goal-oriented to being artistic.”“Creating businesses and making money are now more of an ‘art.’““Whether in commerce, science, or politics—history remembers the artists.”“I’m just playing, for sixteen hours a day. If others want to compete with me, they’re going to work, they’re going to lose because they’re not going to do it for sixteen hours a day, seven days a week.”“I got to combine my vocation and my avocation.”

Work as Play

“All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.”“Value your time. It is all you have. It’s more important than your money. It’s more important than your friends. It is more important than anything.““When you find the right thing to do, when you find the right people to work with, invest deeply. Sticking with it for decades is really how you make the big returns in your relationships and in your money.”

Time & Compounding

“Any end goal will just lead to another goal, lead to another goal. We just play games in life.““When you grow up, you’re playing the school game, or you’re playing the social game. Then you’re playing the money game, and then you’re playing the status game. These games just have longer and longer and longer-lived horizons. At some point, at least I believe, these are all just games. These are games where the outcome really stops mattering once you see through the game.”

Beyond the Games

“Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you’re retired.”“Once you can solve your money problems, either by lowering your lifestyle or by making enough money, you want to retire.”There are multiple ways to retire:<ul><li>“One way is to have so much money saved that your passive income (without you lifting a finger) covers your burn rate.”</li><li>“A second is you just drive your burn rate down to zero—you become a monk.”</li><li>“A third is you’re doing something you love. You enjoy it so much, it’s not about the money.”</li></ul>

Retirement

“Whenever you can in life, optimize for independence rather than pay. If you have independence and you’re accountable on your output, as opposed to your input—that’s the dream.”“My old definition was ‘freedom to.’ Freedom to do anything I want. Freedom to do whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like. Now, the freedom I’m looking for is internal freedom. It’s ‘freedom from.’ Freedom from reaction. Freedom from feeling angry. Freedom from being sad. Freedom from being forced to do things. I’m looking for ‘freedom from,’ internally and externally, whereas before I was looking for ‘freedom to.’“

Freedom

“All the real scorecards are internal.”“The reality is life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone.”“Training yourself to be happy is completely internal. There is no external progress, no external validation. You’re competing against yourself—it is a single-player game.““We are such social creatures, we’re externally programmed and driven. We don’t know how to play and win these single-player games anymore. We compete purely in multiplayer games.”

Single-Player Game

“‘I don’t have time’ is just another way of saying ‘It’s not a priority.'”“If something is your number one priority, then you will do it. That’s just the way life works. If you’ve got a fuzzy basket of ten or fifteen different priorities, you’re going to end up getting none of them.”“The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse.”“Health, love, and your mission, in that order. Nothing else matters.”“There are three really big decisions you make in your early life: where you live, who you’re with, and what you do.”

Priorities & Big Decisions

“If you cannot decide, the answer is no. And the reason is, modern society is full of options.““One of the things I’m trying to get rid of is the word ‘should.’ Whenever the word ‘should’ creeps up in your mind, it’s guilt or social programming. Doing something because you ‘should’ basically means you don’t actually want to do it. It’s just making you miserable, so I’m trying to eliminate as many ‘shoulds’ from my life as possible.”“Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard.”“Impatience with actions, patience with results.”

Choices & Actions

“Everyone makes it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, and discarding as you see fit. Figure it out yourself, and do it.““There is no endpoint to self-awareness and self-discovery. It’s a lifelong process you hopefully keep getting better and better at. There is no one meaningful answer, and no one is going to fully solve it unless you’re one of these enlightened characters.”“The hardest thing is not doing what you want—it’s knowing what you want.”

Know Yourself

“You can only achieve mastery in one or two things. It’s usually things you’re obsessed about.”“All you should do is what you want to do. If you stop trying to figure out how to do things the way other people want you to do them, you get to listen to the little voice inside your head that wants to do things a certain way. Then, you get to be you.”“To make an original contribution, you have to be irrationally obsessed with something.”“Figure out what you’re good at, and start helping other people with it. Give it away. Pay it forward."

Find Your Passion & Be The Best

“I think every human should aspire to being knowledgeable about certain things and being paid for our unique knowledge.”“Specific knowledge is sort of this weird combination of unique traits from your DNA, your unique upbringing, and your response to it. It’s almost baked into your personality and your identity. Then you can hone it.”Specific knowledge is found much more by pursuing your innate talents, your genuine curiosity, and your passion.”

Specific Knowledge

“‘Productize’ and ‘yourself.’ ‘Yourself’ has uniqueness. ‘Productize’ has leverage. ‘Yourself ‘ has accountability. ‘Productize’ has specific knowledge. ‘Yourself ‘ also has specific knowledge in there. So all of these pieces, you can combine them into these two words.“Be a maker who makes something interesting people want. Show your craft, practice your craft, and the right people will eventually find you.”

Productize Yourself

“The really smart thinkers are clear thinkers. They understand the basics at a very, very fundamental level.”“The best mental models I have found came through evolution, game theory, and Charlie Munger.”“Mental models are really just compact ways for you to recall your own knowledge.”“Evolution, thermodynamics, information theory, and complexity have explanatory and predictive power in many aspects of life.”

Mental Models

“The means of learning are abundant—it’s the desire to learn that is scarce.”“Real knowledge is intrinsic, and it’s built from the ground up.”“If you’re a perpetual learning machine, you will never be out of options for how to make money. You can always see what’s coming up in society, what the value is, where the demand is, and you can learn to come up to speed.”“If you want to make the maximum amount of money possible, if you want to get rich over your life in a predictable way, stay on the bleeding edge of trends and study technology, design, and art—become really good at something.”

Learning

“Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else.”“Read originals and read classics.”“Reading science, math, and philosophy one hour per day will likely put you at the upper echelon of human success within seven years.”“Read the greats in math, science, and philosophy. Ignore your contemporaries and news. Avoid tribal identification. Put truth above social approval.”“Read what you love until you love to read.”“Read enough, and you become a connoisseur. Then you naturally gravitate more toward theory, concepts, nonfiction.”

Reading

A list of powerful statements that give you a perspective if you haven't read Naval's tweets yet. If you have, read it once again for newer ideas :)

Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What does progress really look like? Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval's wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections. This isn't a how-to book, or a step-by-step gimmick. Instead, through Naval's own words, you will learn how to walk your own unique path toward a happier, wealthier life.

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Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What does progress really look like? Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval's wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections. This isn't a how-to book, or a step-by-step gimmick. Instead, through Naval's own words, you will learn how to walk your own unique path toward a happier, wealthier life.

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<ul><li>A person who is in state of flow is at his maximum potential & productivity , can complete task faster than any other time of day.</li><li>In martial arts , "State of flow/State like water" is when a person's body do work or reacts without thinking i.e. instinctively.</li></ul>

What Is Flow Of State

<ul><li>When you are doing your best work & are in a total state of flow, where there is no separation between you and your work you're doing, you're having NO THOUGHTS in the moment.</li><li>And if you're having thoughts, it's just FLOWING RIGHT THROUGH you without you having to thing about it.</li><li>In other words, for humans "the state of peak performance is state of non-thinking"</li></ul>"Think less, work more"

How To Achieve It? 

<ul><li>As there are no wrong or right keys on piano , there are only decisions or "keys" that are more pleasant than others.</li><li>Similarly , do tasks in "STEP-WISE Linked" manner; means</li></ul><ol><li>Start the task.</li><li>Break it in parts (link every completed part with upcoming part).</li><li>Complete one-by-one part till finishing the task</li></ol>

How To Know What To Do Without Thinking? 

"Anxiety is thought without control,Flow is control without thought"

"The State of FLOW"  or non-thinking is when our productivity is at maximum & provides happiness, this is how to achieve it👇🏻

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The State of "FLOW" or "Zero THOUGHT" 

Focus and concentration plays a key role in our life as its Importance can't be ignored when it comes to <a href="https://inspirationalblogs45.blogspot.com/2021/08/Best-way-to-improve-your-productivity%20.html">productivity </a> . Being more focused and concentrated towards work is a dream of many and no doubt everyone is willing to boost their productivity.  It's not that much hard. With a little effort one can easily stay more focused and concentrated.

How To Improve Focus And Conce

If you will find your distraction then it will be easy for you to increase your focus. These days mostly people are distracted by smartphones. Try to reduce the use of smartphones as much as possible.  Distractions are the enemy of a productive life and two things can't come in a single place. When it comes to distractions you must avoid them as much as possible.

• Find your distraction and beat them

<a href="https://inspirationalblogs45.blogspot.com/2021/04/mindfulness-meditation-practice.html">Meditation </a> and morning exercise are the best way to make your mind work faster and more actively.  Meditation refreshes your mind and boosts your productivity. You must try to create a dedicated slot of 10-15mins for meditation.  Habits are not built in a single day but become due to the efforts that we put in every day.  Meditation is the best habit to stay attentive.

• Morning exercise or meditation

In our childhood our teacher taught us " Early to bed, early to rise makes a person healthy , wealthy and wise." This is the truth of today's society . Giving a rest to your brain and body is necessary .  A better sleep is a key for a better life and you must opt for the same rule for yourself. Don't be a night owl, sleep early and nourish your mind and give rest to your body.

• A better sleep

Music heals our body, brain and heart and that's all that we need to listen to music, anything that you love. Classical, folk, hip-hop or your favourite singer just entertain yourself with music. When you feel less focused then pick up your earbuds or earphones and take a break of 10mins, listen to your favourite songs and fresh your mind.

• Listen to music

Focus is a key to productivity and with a little practice of meditation with a healthy diet and a flavour of music in life can surely be a great way of making yourself better.

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Most people have little things that they wish to do, and big things they want to achieve.It sometimes feels like to achieve your goals, you have to become a different person, who puts in more effort stand has more willpower.

🦸 The person you are, and the person you wish to be.

As with most things, understanding why makes it easier.

❗ Change is actually hard

<ul><li>moving through it is like an actual jungle</li><li>your brain hates using energy, so as you start doing something, your brain lays a trail</li><li>overtime it becomes easier to go through, and it becomes less and less effortless</li></ul>

🌿 Imagine your brain as a lush jungle

A routine is a set of things you do the same way every time because they've worked out for you.<ul><li>for example, you set an alarm for 6:00 every night because that's when you want to wake up</li></ul>imagine routines as being executed by a smart planner.<ul><li>slow and analytical</li><li>the planner is aware of the future</li></ul>Routines can turn into habits <ul><li>a habit feels like you are on autopilot</li><li>habits are started by triggers. triggers can be time or complex scenarios</li></ul>imagine habits as a toddler<ul><li>for the toddler, the future doesn't exist</li><li>it responds to your immediate desires</li><li>can lead to bad habits</li></ul>

🔁 Routines and Habits

You need routines as much as habits.You need routines for big thoughts and for example your taxes, but it would be too tiring to do every action as a routine, so habits help us consume less energy.

💡 Both are important

<ul><li>Focus on small things</li><li>Convince your brain that its not that hard, by making routines, and turning them into habits</li><li>Break down your goal into small actions. So small it's manageable and so specific that you don't have to think about it a lot</li></ul>

🤔 How to build a habit

A trigger is a signal to start an actionfor example:<ul><li>seeing your training equipment</li><li>time of day</li><li>being in a specific place</li></ul>

👁️ Include triggers

If you want to work out after waking up. Always start doing your action in a certain context.for example: always exercise in training clothes, in the same place at the same time.Doing a workout will still take energy, but the decision to do it will feel less like a chore and more like a part of your day.

👕 Always start in the context

Not necessarily by rewarding yourself at the end, but by making it more enjoyable while doing it.For example: listen to your favorite podcast when you work out.

🎶 Try to make your new action pleasurable

It varies widely.It depends on the behavior you are trying to get used to, what person you are, your stress levels, and many others.It takes anything between 15 and 215 days to start your action automatically by its trigger.

⌛ How long does it take to form a habit?

It might feel easy in the first few weeks, but continuing is the most important part

👟 Starting is easy, continuing is hard

Change is a direction, not a destination

You don't have to spend money to improve yourself.You can track your habits in a dedicated app, on your phone, on paper, or in a journal.

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<ul><li>Frame goals as an "end", not a "means".</li><li>Keep goals abstract.</li><li>Set "Approach" Goals, not "Avoidance" Goals.</li><li>Make goals intrinsic, not extrinsic.</li><li>Do something because you want to, not because you have to.</li></ul>

Define Goals Properly

<ul><li>Set a number - an exact number allows you to track progress and adjust effort.</li><li>A disproportionate number of runners finish races under the target they set for themselves.</li><li>Another good trick is to set multiple early deadlines.</li><li>Choose a target that's difficult, but doable.</li></ul>

Set A Target

<ul><li>The sunk cost fallacy is the human tendency to keep working on something simply because we've already invested in it.</li><li>This can be a negative because it can lead us to throw good money after bad.</li><li>With our goals, it can also be a positive.</li><li>By regularly reviewing your progress, you can activate the sunk-cost fallacy and resist the urge to quit.</li></ul>

Monitor Your Progress

<ul><li>Middles can feel like they're never going to end.</li><li>Two tricks to help: look back and flip perspectives.</li><li>Use weekly goals instead of monthly goals and stay the heck away from annual goals.</li><li>Perspective shift: think about who you are instead of how the project is going.</li></ul>

Beware The Long Middle

When we spend more time thinking about the future, we make better choices in the present.Think about the total effect of being the kind of person who routinely takes those easy ways out.A study showed that when a behavior is associated with an identity we don't want to hold, we are far less likely to keep engaging in it.

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Productivity is not about doing more work. It is the ability to complete a set amount of work in less time. However, a non-stop stream of notifications during the workday can impact productivity. Research shows that it takes a person 23 minutes to regain their prior level of thought once they are distracted. Pivoting to a quick task such as answering a message often takes longer than the actual task.

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Productive employees can get work done with fewer resources in less time. Here's how you can build and maintain a productive business:<ul><li>At the leadership level, clarify goals and priorities for all employees. This ensures the right people are working on the right tasks at the right time, not wasting time on less important work.</li><li>In the product realm, companies must be biased toward action rather than perfection.</li><li>At the employee level,  people need to prioritize their work within different quadrants of an "urgent by important matrix."</li></ul>

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