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Why Is It So Hard to Pay Attention? Or Is It? Curiosity May Be Key to Concentrating

By Judson Brewer — 2014

Here are two ways we can pay attention: force ourselves to concentrate, or be interested. The first way is what I did when I was first learning mindfulness.

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8 Ways to Maintain Your Focus While Working

Productivity and focus are two different things, although they are certainly connected in some regards. There are several important factors when it comes to being productive, and focus is one of them.

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Cheryle Ramos
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13 Science-Backed Tips to Stay Focused and Avoid Distractions

Whether it's fatigue, distractions, lack of motivation, or something else entirely, our inability to focus digs a hole in our productivity and limits our chances of success.

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Katie Walsh, Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, and Jessica Orwig
2020
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7 Useful Tips for Improving Your Mental Focus

Staying on task can be difficult, but it can be particularly challenging when you are surrounded by constant distraction. In today's always-connected world, diversions are nothing more than a click away.

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Kendra Cherry
2020
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Need Help Staying Focused? Try These 10 Tips

If there’s one thing we could all probably use a lot more of, it’s the ability to focus. But telling yourself to stay focused on a task, especially a mundane one, is often a lot easier said than done.

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Timothy J. Legg
2019
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Discipline, Routine and Focus Can Create an Amazing Life: Jay Shetty

Jay Shetty on his latest book, his experiences living as a monk in India and the necessity of routine in one’s life.

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Navneet Vyasan
2020
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Faced with Distraction, We Need Willpower

Mustering willpower is a struggle for almost everyone — and it’s getting harder. We, as individuals and as a society, lack self-control at precisely the time we need it most.

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John Coleman
2012
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6 High-Performance Habits Only the Most Extraordinary People Share, Backed by Science

Why do some people succeed more quickly than others, and maintain that success over the course of decades?

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Jeff Haden
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Just One Thing: Pay Attention!

Moment to moment, the flows of thoughts and feelings, sensations and desires, and conscious and unconscious processes sculpt your nervous system like water gradually carving furrows and eventually gullies on a hillside. Your brain is continually changing its structure.

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Rick Hanson
2015
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Make Space for Practice

If you want to develop the mental focus and flexibility to accomplish more in less time, to stay calm in stressful situations, and to solve problems creatively, take a break and meditate.

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Kelly McGonigal
2009
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The Science of Taming the Wandering Mind

Wherever attention goes the rest of the brain follows—in some sense, attention is your brain’s boss. But is it a good boss and can we train it?

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Amishi Jha
2017
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