Repeat that process three more times, then have a longer break. Work on the task in hand – and that task alone – until the timer goes off. This is a simple technique that works well with the way our minds work. Chances are this still won’t be 100% (you’re only human) but it will be close.Īnd you’ll be able to spot things that would have gone un-noticed otherwise. If you’re focused on just one thing at a time, you can give it the majority of your attention. All of which have smaller components but if the pilot was thinking about landing while the plane was taking off, I wouldn’t want to be on that flight.
#Focus on one thing full#
If it’s a large goal, it’s well worth splitting it up into smaller parts so that you can give each of them your full attention at the time.įor instance, a pilot has completely different things to focus on at different times – the pre-flight checks, taxiing on the runway, the take off, the route, pre-landing checks and then the landing. This works whether it’s a small thing you’re focusing on or a larger goal. It forces you to focus on one thing and you’ll almost certainly do a better job of the task when you follow this route. So we’ve been trained to single task since we were young. You didn’t learn math at the same time as a foreign language. Think back to school – unless you went to a Steiner Waldorf school, you almost had separate lessons for separate subjects. Which is why you couldn’t remember most of the show while you were searching for that must-have item. The tasks converge, even if they’re completely different. The same happens when you try to multi-task. Chances are that, no matter how hard you concentrate, they both end up moving the same way. You can demonstrate this quickly for yourself – try to move each hand a different way from the other (one clockwise, one anti-clockwise for instance). Our minds are quite good at compartmentalising things – scientists know that different parts of our brain store different things.īut when we try to access too many different items, our mind goes into overload. Especially if that information is on several different topics. The more information our mind tries to process, the more we get confused and flustered. You almost certainly missed some important plot developments in the show and you probably lost your concentration on your search and had to go back through the products you found and their reviews.
#Focus on one thing tv#
Think about the last time you were watching a TV show but also searching for something on Amazon. A lot gets written about multi-tasking but it’s generally not an efficient way of working.įocusing on one thing at a time may seem as though you’re wasting time (after all, you could be doing lots of things in that same time) but it’s more a concentrated use of your time and is almost always more a productive use of it.
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