How do people manage to focus on one thing?

[ashore]

My concentration is very poor , whether it's for studying or exercising.

 

[graoumia]

Hello and welcome. I would recommend you to read @Damer insights , and maybe build to last, because exercising could help you on focus, to improve it i think

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Thread 'From The Recesses Of My Mind'

Apr 6, 2025

I train every day and have more or less done this for the last 47 years. Sharing what I do will not be of much help. But the thoughts I have about exercise and the insights I gleam about the way we work (our operating system, so to speak) may actually be useful. I've thought for a long time about the merits of putting it all in a log like this. I'd love to hear what you think as you come across it.

Today's insight: Exercise is doing something inefficiently until it becomes efficient.

The body is an optimization machine. The adaptations that lead to the visible aspects of fitness...

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He is very smart and has incredible coloring skills

 

[Fanta]

My concentration is very poor , whether it's for studying or exercising.

How does your scatteredness occur exactly?

There is a definite plague of low attention spans ongoing - blame the phone notifications, 1min tik tok videos, doomscrolling, AI quick answers to everything.
The good news is that it can be cured.

Eliminate all distractions from the room in which you are doing the activity you wish to do. Turn those distractions off, bring them to another room.
Observe yourself when you get distracted and try to reach out to the distraction(s) (which are now in another room probably).
Go back to your initial task at hand.
Rinse and repeat. Don't judge yourself when you get distracted again. Observe. Reflect on how you feel, physically and emotionally.
It's like training muscles.
Your attention span will come back.

I recommend this short prose form article. Read it all. Do not get distracted reading it
Quoted tips below:

Here are a few gentle experiments you can use now to reclaim these in-between moments:

• Leave your phone in another room every time you eat a meal.
• Take one daily walk without devices, podcasts, or music… just you, noticing your environment, and paying attention to the world around you.
• When you’re switching between tasks or waiting in a line, try taking a few deep breaths, noticing the sensations in your body, and noticing what’s around you before checking your phone.
• Delete one app that has been taking up most of your time, just for a week, and see how it feels.
• Plug in your phone outside of your bedroom before you go to bed at night, and you will be screen-free in the morning and evening, so you never start or end your day with overstimulation. Put a paper book in your room instead.

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Further reading:

Stolen Focus - Johann Hari

Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport

Indistractable - Nir Eyal

 

[ashore]

How does your scatteredness occur exactly?

There is a definite plague of low attention spans ongoing - blame the phone notifications, 1min tik tok videos, doomscrolling, AI quick answers to everything.
The good news is that it can be cured.

Eliminate all distractions from the room in which you are doing the activity you wish to do. Turn those distractions off, bring them to another room.
Observe yourself when you get distracted and try to reach out to the distraction(s) (which are now in another room probably).
Go back to your initial task at hand.
Rinse and repeat. Don't judge yourself when you get distracted again. Observe. Reflect on how you feel, physically and emotionally.
It's like training muscles.
Your attention span will come back.

I recommend this short prose form article. Read it all. Do not get distracted reading it
Quoted tips below:

thank you ,it mainly comes form short videos

 

[ashore]

Hello and welcome. I would recommend you to read @Damer insights , and maybe build to last, because exercising could help you on focus, to improve it i think

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Thread 'From The Recesses Of My Mind'

Apr 6, 2025

I train every day and have more or less done this for the last 47 years. Sharing what I do will not be of much help. But the thoughts I have about exercise and the insights I gleam about the way we work (our operating system, so to speak) may actually be useful. I've thought for a long time about the merits of putting it all in a log like this. I'd love to hear what you think as you come across it.

Today's insight: Exercise is doing something inefficiently until it becomes efficient.

The body is an optimization machine. The adaptations that lead to the visible aspects of fitness...

• Damer
• Replies: 68
• Forum: Checking In | Logs

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• 

He is very smart and has incredible coloring skills

thank you,I will read it carefully.