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#435: How to Achieve Hyperfocus

The Art of Manliness

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How to Stay Focused on Something for a Long Time

The deeper we care about what we're doing the easier focus becomes. We deplete our focus whenever we have to exercise control over it and so if you never have to exercise your attention because you care about the work you're doing then its pleasurable, novel or threatening. The Pomodoro technique where we focus essentially in intervals for 25 minutes on something then let our attention rest for 5 then 25 and 5 then the longer break eventually after one of those 25 minute sessions this is why TED Talks are about 18 to 20 minutes long.

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