Re:What Is Mind-Wandering and How You Use It to Your Advantage?
by malux85 on Sunday November 08, 2020 @10:09AM
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Practice focus with gradually increasing duration. Eliminate distractions through willpower (or configuration if you must). Deliberate, spaced, repetition of focus duration. There are no quick fixes.
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Re:What Is Mind-Wandering and How You Use It to Your Advantage?
by tikhonj on Sunday November 08, 2020 @11:01AM
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Deliberate and repeated practice is a great idea, but in my experience trying to use "willpower" to focus is actively counter-productive. Instead, I've found that practicing mindfulness meditation and "letting go" of thoughts when I notice my mind wandering works far better.
I've been using Headspace[1] as an introduction to meditation and it only took a few weeks of regular meditation, working up from 5 minutes a day to 20, for me to feel a real difference. I didn't know what to expect going in—I was a bit skeptical of the whole idea, to be honest—but I'm glad I stuck with it.