I'm a very distractible person. I would sit for 10 minutes trying to study. But when I actually found myself, I was already cleaning my room. Like looking into the walls, checking my phone or any other thing. After really trying different things to try to increase my focus, I came up with a few things that really helped me out. And I really believe that they can help you out too.
And being focused is an essential part of learning any skill. And remember, the more you practice focus, the better you will become edit, just like with any other skill, George Lucas said, always remember, your focus determines your reality. To be really honest here, what mostly impacts my ability to focus was to mute my phone and put it away. So please, if you're doing anything that requires your focus, such as learning a new skill, put your phone away in don't jacket. If we are already very distractible people, why do we keep our phones near us? Each time you check your phone, your brain switch its context.
And the more your brain switches its context, the more tired you feel. And the more tired you feel, the less ability you have to focus. And the less ability you have to focus, the more difficult it will be to learn anything, as Carolyn believes that multitasking is a persistent myth. Being deep, focused attention to one task at a time is the correct way. And that's called Newport puts it high quality work produced equals to time spent, multiply it by intensity of focus. So focus is just an a requirement to learn anything.
Here are two tips that you can use to focus more. So the first one is to choose the exact time you are going to start your focusing sessions in the location if you have a lot of trouble focusing Starting for doing it for 25 minutes might be the best way for you, and then progressively start increasing your focusing time. If you are learning in a place where other people are around, make sure you tell them to not interrupt you and keep the place where you are going to learn very clean. In one experiment, a group was exposed to a very clean laboratory and the other group to a messy one. The people that visited the messy room scored much lower in a lot of measures on self control. The second tip is to decide what you're going to focus on.
Whether it is to learn some basic principles through a book or to play a specific chord in your guitar. Make sure you decide previously what you're going to focus on. Bring everything you need to the place where you're going to start and do it. Remember to keep your phone away and if necessary, block certain websites from your computer after your focus sessions. Take Break, walk outside, drink a cup of water and stop for a minute. Barbara Oakley in her book, a mind of numbers states the importance of making breaks to learn anything.
So after focusing for a block of time, you have to leave that place in to go for a walk to do some type of exercise meditation in order to trigger your diffuse mode of thinking, which which is also very important to learn anything