According to David Coleman, distractions come in two main kinds:
1. sensory distractions (things happening around you).
2. emotional distractions (your inner dialogue).
- Exercise 🤸♂️
- Medidate 🧘♀️
- Stay hydrated💧
- Quit multi tasking 👨💻
- Get enough sleep 😴
- Reduce interference 🤳
- Listen to classical music 🎼
Physical activity can help improve your attention and focus, as it releases chemicals in the brain that affect learning and memory.
Exercise provides a short-term boost to your cognitive performance.
strengthen your body 💪🏿 and you strengthen your brain 🧠.
It’s scientifically proven that meditation techniques improve cognitive control, attentiveness, speed of processing, and working memory capacity.
Just focus on your breath, and when your mind wanders, simply return your attention to your breath - anywhere, anytime.
Being dehydrated is bad for your attention span. In fact, a 2% drop in dehydration isn’t enough to trigger thirst, but can negatively impact your ability to concentrate.
If you need to focus for a while, have enough water on standby.
Multitasking is the enemy of focus.
Research shows that we are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.
Take a singular objective, and let that be your sole focus until completion.
Sleeping only a few hours a night over a long period of time impairs memory, alertness and executive functions.
Sleep feeds creativity, innovative thinking and problem solving abilities.
Aim to get a minimum of 7 hours sound sleep daily, works wonders.
The best way to change your habit is to make your environment as boring as possible when trying to focus.
Keep distractions far away. Turn off notifications.
Free yourself from F.O.M.O (fear of missing out).
Listening to short symphonies engages the areas of the brain involved with paying attention, making predictions, and updating the event in memory.
Roll out some Beethoven when you need to activate that “flow state”.
FOCUS IS THE NEW IQ.
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