Distracted? Frazzled? Try the Concentration Cure
Five takeaways:
- Dandapani’s thesis revolves around understanding and valuing your awareness. Awareness is controllable; it drives all of one’s actions and growth.
- One should be intentional about developing the willpower with which they apply their awareness. Willpower in this context is the ability to retain awareness on something specific, and to bring it back when we get distracted. Willpower, like a muscle, can be developed and strengthened.
- Technology can erode one’s ability to control their awareness. It is addictive by design, and all too often we put ourselves in the position of serving the technology that is meant to serve us. Be intentional in regulating your reliance and devotion to handheld tech.
- Multitasking erodes happiness: If you have five projects and let your awareness jump indiscriminately between them, the result is anxiety.
- Devoting focus to something or someone enriches the project or relationship. By giving someone undivided attention, you show them that you value their time/energy. It is an amazing and all too valuable form of respect that can have positive effects on all areas of one’s life.
From Jennie Tung for Oprah Daily:
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