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HyperFocus - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Distractions are infinitely easier to deal with in advance—by the time they appear, it’s often already too late to defend our intention against them. Internal distractions must be tamed as well—including random (and sometimes cringeworthy) memories and thoughts that bubble up as we’re trying to focus, the mental resistance we have to unappealing tasks (like doing taxes or cleaning the garage), and the times we want to focus but our mind wants to wander.
- - - - —assessed the break data for the most productive 10 percent of its users. They discovered that, on average, these users took a seventeen-minute break after every fifty-two minutes of work.
  - - - feel more pressure at work;
      - focus for a shorter duration of time (even less than forty seconds);
      - fire up social media sites more often;
      - experience more negative moods;
      - actively seek less demanding tasks (eliminating those that no longer fit into
      - our shrunken attentional space); and
      - spend more time online throughout the day
- - - - A few of my favorites for computer are Freedom (paid, though there’s a free trial—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad), Cold Turkey (free, though there’s a paid version— Windows, Mac, Android), and RescueTime (paid, though there’s a free trial—PC, Mac, Android, Linux)