Deep Work: How to Focus and Resist Distractions (Ep. 100)
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Training Your Mind to Concentrate
The ability to focus your attention on one thing at a time isn't just this thing that's universally difficult for everyone to get into, and just some people don't have a discipline. It's actually a skill. You have to train your mind to concentrate like you wauld train a muscle to be able to do a pull up. And in order to reach levels of concentration that really unlocks the massive productivity benefits of deep work, that itself takes some training. So part of the training is actually reducing your dependence on novel stimuli. The second type of training is actually deepening your ability to concentrate harder and harder.
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