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#453 - Chris Bailey - The Most Important Principles Of Productivity

Modern Wisdom

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How to Unfocus, to Relinquish Our Focus Throughout the Day

The steps to devoting our full attention to something are quite simple. We can choose, first of all, what we want to focus on. And ideally that something that is productive. If your mind veers off to think about something that you have to do, it's one powerful directions list. When those things arise, you put them on the distractions list so that when your focus timer goes up, and the duration of which will increase over time as you get better at the skill of deliberateness.

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