How to Achieve Focus in a Task

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Being well rested when you sleep, your autonomic nervous system that adjusts states of alertness and focus works better than when you're sleep deprived. For people that have problems focusing sleep well, learn to dilate and contract your visual field consciously. Just enough caffeine, but not too much. If you're going to use binaural beats, which should definitely be used with headphones, 40 Hertz is the frequency that best supports the brain shifting into a particular moment.

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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:25) – Diet
(17:30) – Attribution in science
(20:11) – Rick Rubin
(27:57) – Mental states
(42:38) – Controversial guests
(55:19) – Karl Deisseroth
(59:34) – Difficult conversations
(1:06:36) – Big guests
(1:20:22) – Academia
(1:27:23) – Freedom of speech
(1:38:26) – If by Rudyard Kipling
(1:45:37) – Music
(1:51:16) – Public speaking
(2:10:11) – Non-sleep deep rest
(2:24:32) – Focus
(2:34:52) – Stress and anxiety
(2:54:48) – Sauna
(3:06:14) – Sex
(3:14:07) – Love and relationships