Focus on the work, unexpectedly also become our scarce ability

The internet is unconsciously transforming our brains and losing our ability to read and think deeply. Our attention is now so fragmented fragmented-focused on doing things, sometimes it has become a scarce capacity. But focusing on work and life is an indispensable ability. How to cultivate it? Here are some actionable suggestions

We each have a head like this, a lot of direction, often wandering.

Driven by infinite ideas, we never have enough time, because you always don't know where you spend your time.

You may have seen the subtle metaphor of Oliver Emberton. He likened our brains to beach volleyball filled with bees, hundreds of conflicting impulses that pushed us in different directions.

We can't wait to finish everything:

We want to both exercise and learn English, but also go out to eat pizza. Our desires are infinite, different forces, pushing this "beach volleyball" of our brains in all directions.

So, the usual situation is that the ball is not even there. It is more susceptible to topography than to being controlled by "bees". This is the way most people live.

Most people are not frustrated by their lack of ability. They failed because they dispersed their abilities in too many directions.

Paranoia is generally focused on one goal, which may be the only strategy to succeed. When you are able to focus on a goal and be persistent, your accomplishments will reach their theoretical limits.

Imagine a goal that you never dreamed of in your own mind. For example, you want to write a book, or go to Mars. You're definitely going to throw away everything else. You'll turn yourself into a giant bumblebee, push in one direction, and you'll move very, very quickly.

So, the usual situation is that the ball is not even there. It is more susceptible to topography than to being controlled by "bees". This is the way most people live.

Most people are not frustrated by their lack of ability. They failed because they dispersed their abilities in too many directions.

Paranoia is generally focused on one goal, which may be the only strategy to succeed. When you are able to focus on a goal and be persistent, your accomplishments will reach their theoretical limits.

Imagine a goal that you never dreamed of in your own mind. For example, you want to write a book, or go to Mars. You're definitely going to throw away everything else. You'll turn yourself into a giant bumblebee, push in one direction, and you'll move very, very quickly.

It tries to attract our attention and finally distracts our attention from fragmented.

The internet is unconsciously transforming our brains, so that we are full of direction, but lost the direction.

In fact, the number of directions is inversely proportional to what we can achieve in some way. According to the above formula, each direction will reduce the achievement you can achieve to 1/4.

The more ideas we have in our heads, the harder it is to resist temptation, to focus and cling to one goal.

every day in the Internet content soaked each of us, the idea is like a jumping monkey, one will think of this, one will think about that, and training their focus is to tame the big monkey.

In your daily life, you can use these techniques to make yourself more focused.

1. What is the focus force?

The concept of focus is simple, and it's about freeing yourself from multiple directions and focusing on one thing at a time.

"Concentration is taking your mind off many things and putting it on one thing at a time."

2. Control your thinking

Learn to control your mind. In fact, if you decide that you can stay focused, then you can.

You can try the "5 more" rule, and when you're about to give up, tell yourself: I can hold on for another five minutes. After completing these five minutes, another round of new five minutes. As a result, your big goal is gradually completed in every five minutes of this process.

There is also a small trick: for this can not need to participate in the hands of things, increase the hand to participate in, is a particularly good way. For example, when reading a book, at the same time take notes on hand.

3, the most troublesome task to do first

When completing a series of tasks, put the difficult tasks first, because we are always more focused and energetic when we start doing something.

In this way, you can see that the more things are done, the easier it is.

4, only focus on the most important things in your life

Many times, we will slowly become the person or thing that we focus on.

have you noticed that couples who have been married for years will become more and more like each other, and in character, a lot of people will gradually become more and more like their working bosses, co-workers and even their pets.

People's energy is limited, if you worry about too many things, stick to 2-3 things you have already begun to worry about, and then give up the rest.

These include not only some work and life goals, but even your long-standing habits and even some of your relationships, but remember that you are making choices for your life.

5. Define Your goals

We all want to be a goal-oriented person, and then follow the direction of the heart 1.1 points to achieve. Don't worry if the goal is not able to achieve 100%, what we need to do is try to approach it.

The constant intensity of focusing on something without a goal will only cause trouble.

6. Find your focus force "killer"

If you think of the idea of a monkey, knowing why you can't concentrate, it's easy to tame the big monkey. The causes of inattention mainly include internal and external factors:

• External disturbances include: noise, dialogue, uncomfortable chairs and tables, inappropriate lighting, TV, work, housework, Internet, email, etc.
• internal factors include: hungry, tired, sick, no motivation, bored, no interest, anxiety, stress and annoyance, negative thoughts, daydreaming and so on.

Find these killers and rule them out.

7, to find your most efficient time

Focusing does not mean that you are able to work at full capacity during all of your working hours. People will have a negative state (not sleepy but unable to work efficiently), learn more about yourself and know when you are the most efficient.

If you feel that you are writing more efficiently at night, schedule your evenings as your writing time so that you can post the article the next morning, in such a way that you can be more productive.

8, learn to rest, to ensure adequate sleep

Even at the expense of some activities, insist on on time to sleep, and manage the day's daily arrangements to ensure that the night can have at least 8 hours of sleep time. Bed linen and mattresses must be bought in good quality. This is a very valuable investment, because 30% of the time in a person's life needs to be spent in bed.

You think you're brushing a circle of friends, but you're actually brushing your brain at the same time, and the sense of existence may not be brushed, and time wasted is really true.

The computer hard disk is fragmented and can be defrag, the brain is fragmented and there is no simple program one-click Repair. Focus is a kind of ability, it takes you a long time to learn and develop.

Focus on the work, unexpectedly also become our scarce ability