Now we're moving in how can you improve decision making? One of the best tools or concepts I know about decision making and improving that is focus. So what does it mean focus, it's about having something in a direction, something that you need to follow. And once you know that direction, and is linked to what you like to do, and I'll show you a small framework for that, things become more clear. So there's some recent research from Harvard, where they prove that the people who are more focused so they have one thing in mind, and they do that tend to be more productive, more confident, and actually happier people. But nature this study proved that nature or human nature and our brains tend to go towards disorders so we don't like to be focused.
We like to jump from idea to idea actually says that our brains We'll focus in one point, or idea or concept for three seconds, five seconds and then jumps to the next and to the next and to the next. So it's that's the nature we live in on today even more with all this technology that distractors, but what we need to do is try to get more focus and, and focus may basically it's about saying, No, I'm not going to do that I'm going to do the most important task I have for the day and that's how I start. And that's how I will focus and actually this is very, very important. The discipline, people who are focused us are extremely disciplined. So you need to be disciplined. You need to really force yourself to say, No, I start with the most important task of the day first.
What's very, very interesting here is that the brain is smart, so your brain will actually wants you to tell the brain Okay, I'm going to do the most difficult task first. After a few seconds, you will start feeling that Actually, it's not so difficult a difficult task, you will get into a bubble in kind of a sense they call it flow as well where you're high performing. So it's the moment where you could spend six minutes, but 60 minutes leave in two hours. And you don't have the notion of time. You don't know how many really time how much time you spend, because you were extremely focused. And that's where you need to try to be not the whole day.
But big chunks of your day should be in those flows in those moments where you are hundred percent concentrated without distraction. And actually, this is very interesting. When Bill Gates first met Warren Buffett, he was hosted to dinner. The gates mother asked everyone around the table. Of course, Bill and Warren were there what they believe was the single most important factor in their success. And both of them both bill and Warren.
They say focus at the same time. So they're extremely focused, they have the India they've made the decisions, and they just spend most of their time there. And actually, this is a core skill not just to make decisions, but to be happy with what you do with successful in your careers. It's extremely important that you try to think, understand where you're good that hopefully is close to your passion, and what you love to do. And then it should add value to you or the organization or the world. And you find that spot.
There. That's the sweet spot. That's the focus spot, and that's where you will achieve high performance, satisfaction and happiness.