let's talk about FOCUS.
how do we achieve a state of focus? let's start by defining this state, it's a state where all your energy is given to attentively perceive what you're sensing. i.e 100% attention to what you're seeing/hearing/smelling/tasting/torching. In order to achieve the focus state is very simple ... remove all distractions and guide 100% of your attention to the subject in hand.
simple but not easy.
so how do we eliminate 100% of distraction? let's start by defining what it means to be distracted first. Being distracted is a state where an individual is occupied by another task rather than the task that's supposed to be active. in order to eliminate distraction we must first understand the types of distractions that exists. there are mainly 2.
1) internal distractions: irrelevant thoughts, feelings, cravings and etc.
2) external distractions: social media, music, chatter, etc.
so I'll share with you what i do in order to eliminate these distractions, these may or may not be scientifically proven but it's what works for me.
method 1: to eliminate external distractions it's as simple as keeping what distracts you as far away from you as possible. (phone? leave it in the next room. people background chatterer? Library).
method 2.1: to eliminate internal distraction, step 1 is to identify what it is that your thoughts/feelings tryin to convey step 2 is researching ways to deal with them, step 3 is actually dealing with them
method 2.2: to eliminate internal distractions, completely guide your focus to what you need to focus on (coding, reading, learning something new or whatever the task may be) and your inner dialog would eventually quite down.
so as you can see eliminating your inner distractions is way harder, but it is usually the most distracting elements of our lives, so make sure to research a lil more about it.
now you might ask the reason why i spoke about this, and it's because you the reader might be a programmer, an engineer or just someone in a field that demands laser focus to do your work, that's why enhancing your focus is a very serious problem domain which needs allot of attention, with that being said, i will soon write about the connection between our dopamine baseline and it's connection to being prone to distractions.
farewell.
how do we achieve a state of focus? let's start by defining this state, it's a state where all your energy is given to attentively perceive what you're sensing. i.e 100% attention to what you're seeing/hearing/smelling/tasting/torching. In order to achieve the focus state is very simple ... remove all distractions and guide 100% of your attention to the subject in hand.
simple but not easy.
so how do we eliminate 100% of distraction? let's start by defining what it means to be distracted first. Being distracted is a state where an individual is occupied by another task rather than the task that's supposed to be active. in order to eliminate distraction we must first understand the types of distractions that exists. there are mainly 2.
1) internal distractions: irrelevant thoughts, feelings, cravings and etc.
2) external distractions: social media, music, chatter, etc.
so I'll share with you what i do in order to eliminate these distractions, these may or may not be scientifically proven but it's what works for me.
method 1: to eliminate external distractions it's as simple as keeping what distracts you as far away from you as possible. (phone? leave it in the next room. people background chatterer? Library).
method 2.1: to eliminate internal distraction, step 1 is to identify what it is that your thoughts/feelings tryin to convey step 2 is researching ways to deal with them, step 3 is actually dealing with them
method 2.2: to eliminate internal distractions, completely guide your focus to what you need to focus on (coding, reading, learning something new or whatever the task may be) and your inner dialog would eventually quite down.
so as you can see eliminating your inner distractions is way harder, but it is usually the most distracting elements of our lives, so make sure to research a lil more about it.
now you might ask the reason why i spoke about this, and it's because you the reader might be a programmer, an engineer or just someone in a field that demands laser focus to do your work, that's why enhancing your focus is a very serious problem domain which needs allot of attention, with that being said, i will soon write about the connection between our dopamine baseline and it's connection to being prone to distractions.
farewell.