In this era of information explosion, three ways to help you regain your focus

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Do you often have the feeling that every time you go to the supermarket or shopping mall to buy something, you come prepared, but you are often attracted by the seller's words such as "buy two get one free", "special promotion", "clearance with tears", etc.? In the end, I didn’t buy what I wanted, but I bought a lot of things I didn’t need.

I set myself a task to write an article. An hour has passed, and the topic has not yet been determined. I keep swiping the web pages on the Internet, the amount of information is getting bigger and bigger, my brain is getting more and more confused, and I don’t know what to write.

Sitting in front of the computer and deciding to write a work report, colleague a came over and asked, how was the data preparation yesterday? I started looking for data, and at the same time, B came to ask if I saw that dress on Taobao yesterday and ordered it. I took my mobile phone and started swiping Taobao, but half an hour later, I didn't write a word.

It is clear that we plan to complete what we have to do within the specified time, but we are always disturbed by external things, which affect our own concentration and cause things to be unable to be completed effectively.

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Too much useless information occupies our brains

The reason why we can't maintain our concentration is because our brains pay attention to too much information. Once something to do or our own thinking is interrupted, it will take extra time and energy to recover. In addition, our brain gathers a lot of information, and the brain's processor is similar to the CPU that cannot process it, and it will appear in a state of telling operation but extremely nervous.

At the Oscars ceremony, a documentary about freehand rock climbing, "Freehand Rock Climbing," won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, with a Douban score of 9.1.

In this era of information explosion, three ways to help you regain your focus

Without any auxiliary tools, ropes and safety belts, the rock climber used only his hands and feet to climb to a rock wall more than 900 meters high in 4 hours. Everyone was amazed how he did it. When he tested his brain waves, he found that there was no change in the brain waves, no fear, no fear. There was only one thing in his brain, which was to climb up.

We are exposed to a lot of information every day, 70% of which is useless information, 20% is of little value, only 10% is information that benefits us, and our brains are filled with useless information, leaving us no Time to focus.

In this era of information explosion, three ways to help you regain your focus

Warren Buffett warned everyone: "The most important thing you don't list is what you try to avoid. The really successful people say no to almost everything."

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In such an era of information explosion, everyone is flooded with information from all over the world, reading is fragmented, and work is fragmented. How can we maintain our concentration in such an era full of information?

Block information to focus on one thing at a time

There is an impressive clip in "I Am a Singer". At that time, Li Ronghao found Li Jian to exchange mobile phone numbers, but Li Jian was using an old Nokia mobile phone, and Li Jian said that he never used WeChat, and others looked for him. It's all phone calls or text messages.

"As a singer-songwriter, this is the best way to keep me focused," explains Li Jian.

In this era of information explosion, three ways to help you regain your focus

Later, because of the popularity of "I Am a Singer", Li Jian had many interviews, but in order to focus on music, he refused many variety shows and interviews. Li Jian once said: "I want to protect my time, I only want to be an intellectual, a music intellectual."

If you choose one thing that consumes your focus, focus all your energy 100% on the task and don't work on other things at the same time.

For example, if you want to complete a report today, please give yourself an hour of concentration time, mute or turn off the phone, try not to connect the computer to the Internet, and not be disturbed by outsiders, and concentrate on writing this report. .

If you want to read a book or listen to a class today, then give yourself a period of time, don't be disturbed by the outside world, and focus on reading books and listening to the class. In this way, your day will be rewarded and your time will be better. Valuable, your attention will continue to focus.

Invoke your inner drive to get yourself into the state in 5 minutes

To start doing something, let yourself stick to it for 5 minutes first. For example, if I want to start writing an article, I just sit in front of the computer, let myself think quietly for 5 minutes, and then start writing. When you start, your mind will be very resistant and completely inefficient. The first 5 minutes is not to improve efficiency, it is a positive psychological suggestion.

In this era of information explosion, three ways to help you regain your focus

A lot of things can't be done, not because of how difficult it is or because we don't like it, but because we are unwilling to do it at the beginning, and almost 70% of things are given up before the beginning.

The keynote speaker of the happiness class, tal, is a psychology lecturer. Before he starts work, he also needs 5 minutes to get himself into the state. For example, clean up the housework, start work and study, don't think about how far I want to go, just tell yourself to do it for 5 minutes first, and when you start, you will naturally enter a state of concentration.

Learn to breathe deeply to improve your concentration

If you need to focus on one thing for a long time, the brain needs a lot of oxygen to transport blood. If the oxygen exchange is shallow, it will affect the brain function, resulting in slow thinking and poor concentration.

In this era of information explosion, three ways to help you regain your focus

At this time, we need to take deep breaths to provide oxygen to the brain. The deep breathing here is not the short breath we usually cut. When you inhale, meditate in your heart 1234... to expand your chest and inhale to the limit, and exhale to prolong the breath. All out.

After a few breaths like this, you can feel your brain is clear, relieve anxiety and allow your body to return to a state of "relaxation and learning". Through such repeated practice, we can continuously improve our concentration, and when we do something, we can devote ourselves to it and complete it.

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In this era of information explosion, three ways to help you regain your focus

Li Xiaolai said this about concentration in Wealth Freedom,

"Money isn't the most important thing because it can be reproduced; neither is time the most important thing because it doesn't inherently belong to you, you can only try to be friends with it and make it work for you. Your attention is you The most important and precious resource we have.”

"You must put all your most precious attention on yourself, on your own growth. Ultimately, all your worth is the output of your attention. And, more critically, a person attention is probably the only productive resource that can be called 'innate'.