22 Highlights From "Stolen Focus"
or Why You Can't Pay Attention!
📚DD Growth Book Thread🧵
or Why You Can't Pay Attention!
📚DD Growth Book Thread🧵
1. When you are unable to pay sustained attention, you can’t achieve the things you want to achieve.
2. If you are focusing on something and you get interrupted, it will take you on average 23 minutes to get back to the same state of focus.
2. If you are focusing on something and you get interrupted, it will take you on average 23 minutes to get back to the same state of focus.
3. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
4. Depth takes time and reflection. if you keep getting distracted, there is no time to reach depth.
5. Cellphones offer us the easy thing to do, rather than the important thing to do.
4. Depth takes time and reflection. if you keep getting distracted, there is no time to reach depth.
5. Cellphones offer us the easy thing to do, rather than the important thing to do.
6. If you go too fast, you overload your abilities and they degrade.
7. Slowness nurtures attention and speed shatters it.
8. Multitasking is for computers, not for humans. Our brains can hold only 1 or 2 thoughts at a time.
7. Slowness nurtures attention and speed shatters it.
8. Multitasking is for computers, not for humans. Our brains can hold only 1 or 2 thoughts at a time.
9. If you are struggling to focus, try monotasking for 10 minutes and then allow yourself to get distracted for 1 minute. Doing this will allow your brain to pick up the habit of focusing.
10. Replace distractions with activities that flow.
10. Replace distractions with activities that flow.
11. To get flow, choose a clearly defined goal, choose something that is meaningful to you, do something that is at the edge of your abilities (not very challenging or very easy)
12. To have a good life, removing what is wrong is not enough, you also need a positive goal.
12. To have a good life, removing what is wrong is not enough, you also need a positive goal.
13. The less you sleep, the more your world blurs in every way – ability to focus, ability to think deeply, ability to make connections.
14. During sleep, your brain cleans itself of waste that has accumulated during the day.
14. During sleep, your brain cleans itself of waste that has accumulated during the day.
15. Every night when you go to sleep, your brain is rinsed with a watery fluid. This cerebrospinal fluid washes through your brain, flushes out toxic proteins by carrying them down to your liver to get rid of them.
16. During sleep your energy levels are restored and replenished.
17. Dreaming allows you to revisit stressful moments without releasing stress hormones, which makes it easier to handle stress.
17. Dreaming allows you to revisit stressful moments without releasing stress hormones, which makes it easier to handle stress.
18. Reading books trains us to read in a linear fashion, focused on one thing for a sustained period.
19. Fiction boosts your ability to empathize with other people; the more novels you read the better you are at reading other people’s emotions.
19. Fiction boosts your ability to empathize with other people; the more novels you read the better you are at reading other people’s emotions.
20. The more you let your mind wander, the better you are at having organized personal goals, being creative and making long-term decisions.
21. When your mind wanders it starts making new connections between things, which often produces a solution to problems.
21. When your mind wanders it starts making new connections between things, which often produces a solution to problems.
22. Creativity is not a new thing that emerges from your brain; It’s a new association between two things that are already there.
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