I've struggled with lack of concentration ability all my life. A few times a year, I can get into a zone where I'll concentrate for several hours at a time. Those episodes are amazing. They're addictive, and they left me wanting more.
They are also quite difficult for me to achieve. Chasing them has left me frustrated to the point that I beat up on myself internally when I'm not in the zone, which is most of the time.
Well, what if I didn't need to concentrate more than a few minutes at a time to meet my goals?
The speaker in this Ted Talk says that is exactly what he does. He'd struggled with lack of focus until his sophomore year in college when he decided to put his 5-10 minute bursts of activity to use instead of deriding himself over how short they were. As a result, he changed his GPA from C's to A's. He went on to become a billionaire hedge fund manager, speaker, artist (featured on the cover of several big-deal art magazines), professor at UCSB, Guinness Book recordholder, etc etc etc, using 5 to 10 minute bursts of activity.
The big idea in his Ted Talk is that we should 'go with what works for us.' Use it to its full advantage. Maybe you're the type of person that, with persistence and the proper environment, you can concentrate for hours on end. If so, wonderful. Use that. If you're not, though, use what you have. Forget people who tell you to do what works for them but will never work for you.
I've been doing this for a bit now, and its changing my life.
Worth 20 minutes of your time:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQMbvJNRpLE
They are also quite difficult for me to achieve. Chasing them has left me frustrated to the point that I beat up on myself internally when I'm not in the zone, which is most of the time.
Well, what if I didn't need to concentrate more than a few minutes at a time to meet my goals?
The speaker in this Ted Talk says that is exactly what he does. He'd struggled with lack of focus until his sophomore year in college when he decided to put his 5-10 minute bursts of activity to use instead of deriding himself over how short they were. As a result, he changed his GPA from C's to A's. He went on to become a billionaire hedge fund manager, speaker, artist (featured on the cover of several big-deal art magazines), professor at UCSB, Guinness Book recordholder, etc etc etc, using 5 to 10 minute bursts of activity.
The big idea in his Ted Talk is that we should 'go with what works for us.' Use it to its full advantage. Maybe you're the type of person that, with persistence and the proper environment, you can concentrate for hours on end. If so, wonderful. Use that. If you're not, though, use what you have. Forget people who tell you to do what works for them but will never work for you.
I've been doing this for a bit now, and its changing my life.
Worth 20 minutes of your time:
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