Two Effective Focusing Methods to Improve Concentration

Get YouTube Starter Kit to learn how I edit videos, launch your YouTube channel and build an online audience: https://shuomi.gumroad.com/l/youtube-kickstarter/start 🎥 Learn How I Edit My YouTube Videos: https://shuomi.gumroad.com/l/final-cut Get My FREE YouTube Video Planning Template on Notion: https://shuomi.gumroad.com/l/youtube-planning-template 📝 My Amplenote Course: https://tool-academy.teachable.com/p/amplenote-made-simple Concentration is one of the most critical skills to have. But the modern life is designed to take our ability to focus away from us; we're constantly getting breaking news, new emails and notifications from social media. To make things worse, we now have unlimited entertainment at our fingertips where we can watch movies or play a game whenever and wherever we like. Consequently, we became prone to boredom. Whenever we feel bored, we seek novel stimuli such as social media to break the boredom. This in turn creates Pavlovian conditioning where boredom means stimuli. With this conditioning, we struggle to focus when we actually have to focus on something hard. So, how do we break the conditioning? Article version: https://medium.com/my-learning-journal/why-are-we-so-bad-at-focusing-32e792c4a9f4 Chapters 0:00 Art of Preparation 0:43 How Modern Life Destroys Your Concentration 1:53 Embracing Boredom with Meditation 3:04 Focus Sprints 3:57 Diseases of Abundance ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Weekly Newsletter▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💌 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter: I share the best articles/books/videos/tweets that I read to make my videos and blogs: https://shuomi.beehiiv.com/subscribe ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬About Me▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💎 Twitter: https://twitter.com/shuomi3 ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shu_omi_ 📚 Book Notes: https://shuomi.gumroad.com/l/nTIej 🧠 Blog: https://shuomi.beehiiv.com/subscribe/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬FAVORITE TOOLS▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🔬 RESEARCH Genei: https://www.genei.io/?via=shu 💎 Inspiration box Logseq: https://logseq.com/ Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/ 🧱 NO-CODE WEBSITE BUILDER Systeme.io: https://systeme.io/?sa=sa0025331352de8478102a991b80ddd0877feb6bc0 📚 READING Matter: https://getmatter.app/ Mailbrew: https://mailbrew.com/?aff=shuomi3 🐦 TWITTER Typefully: https://typefully.com/?via=shu ✅ TASK MANAGEMENT Amplenote: https://www.amplenote.com/?ref=TJG07V77Q 📮 NEWSLETTER Systeme.io: https://systeme.io/?sa=sa0025331352de8478102a991b80ddd0877feb6bc0 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Gear▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ My Youtube Gear: https://kit.co/ShuOmi/my-youtube-kit ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬👾Videos You Might Like▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ • My Ultimate Note-Taking System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hbGweed6-E • The Simple Guide to Roam Research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTI6Mxu3YiI • My Favourite Productivity Apps | What's on my iPhone?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tKgMBaxEDk&t=61s .................................................................................................................. Thanks for watching and if you liked this video please leave a LIKE. Subscribe to my channel and click the 🔔 icon for notifications when I post a new video. Have a fantastic day! Shu ............................................. Music: Get music for content here: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/j2jegh/ ............................................. #Focus #Productivity #Studying -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: "How I Plan a Productive Day with "the 1-2-3 Method"" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVhfIWTHG_A -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-