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Focus Is Finite
How you spend your focus is how you spend your time
The human brain is an amazing organ, capable of incredible feats of concentration and memory. It’s also highly susceptible to distractions.
As you’re working on a particular task, your brain constantly switches focus between the task and everything else it needs to process. This isn’t necessarily bad — it’s natural: we get fidgety, bored and distracted very easily once we begin focusing on something.
The human mind operates in a finite capacity. The amount of focus we can devote to anything at any given moment is limited.
As soon as you start thinking about something new or trying to do something different, your mind wanders all over again. This makes it difficult, but not impossible, to get more things done faster.
When you’re trying to get things done, it can feel like a mountain of obstacles in your way. Your mind keeps wandering; ideas don’t stick, and distractions are everywhere. And let’s not even talk about procrastination.
While some days you will feel like working is the worst idea ever, there are other days when it feels almost impossible to squeeze in a few minutes of dedicated work.
High performers in many industries tend to increase the mental processes they need to…
