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Focus guide

Imagine this

You're sat on your ass doing your work. And suddenly a thought pops into your mind. You wanna watch the video which Hamza uploaded yesterday. You go on to YouTube. You watch the whole video start to finish. It was a great video. But after watching it, You close that tab and realize "Fuck me man, I was supposed to do my work. Why tf did I watch this video?"

It was me for a long time. I couldn't focus for even fucking 20 minutes without getting distracted. I CAN'T say that I can now focus for 3-4 hours straight. But I've significantly increased the duration of my focus.

So here's the full guide to focus like a superhuman

1) Don't multitask

This applies when you're working and also when you're not working. When you're doing some other tasks like eating, throw that damn phone away and give your full attention to the task at hand. Be it eating, doing some homework, etc. Even if its a self improvement video, you can watch it after you eat or do shallow work

Multitasking also decreases your ability to focus.

2) No high carb foods when you're working

You've noticed many times that when you eat foods high in carb, you feel sleepy and couldn't focus on the work at hand. This is because your body takes longer time to digest carbs . If you eat carbs before you work, your body is using all of the energy on digesting the carbs leaving no energy for you to put into the task at hand.

The best way to put this advice into your life is to do intermittent fasting. This is where you do the hardest task of your work the first thing you wake up. You haven't ate anything, and you can crush your work

3) Have the ability to sit silently with no distractions or dopamine stimulation

"All of humanity's problems stem from the man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone"

- Blaise Pascal

Whenever you're commuting from work/school to home, sit quietly. Don't go to Instagram, don't stimulate yourself. Sit their with your own thoughts, observe the world around you. Bro, you don't realize the power of doing this. Many of the top scientists, and philosophers do this.

Even when you're eating, don't stimulate yourself. Taste the food at hand, present in the situation.

Be it meditation or staring at the wall, you must develop in yourself the ability to sit silently with no distractions.

4) Remove all the distractions from the environment

When you're working, throw your phone away, somewhere where you can't see it. And also put your phone at aeroplane mode when you work.

The biggest distractions you'll face probably isn't your mobile. Its your thoughts.

You must do task meditation. Take the example from the intro. Instead of going and watching another Hamza video, you could've forced your focus into the task at hand.

Whenever you get distracted from your work, force your focus back. It's like a rep for your focus muscle.

And obviously do meditation.

Damn that was a long ass guide. I hope I've helped you guys. If you got value from this post, like it man. It took a lot of effort to type it out.

Peace

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