<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">I'm a sucker for self-improvement books, and the latest trend/subject is on how to properly focus, and cut out all of the clutter/distractions! Lol</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">In college I hated it when my roommates would listen to music during study time, and now this gives me understanding why my brain was complaining.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">John</font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 10:22 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">No one can do it. To show that it can, a subject has to be as good on the two tasks when done together as they are when doing each separately. Women are not better at it than men, and both are bad.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Why? Try listening to music, something a lot of people do when studying or working, and not miss a measure while doing your work at the same level. Can't be done. Yeah, your brain can shut out the music, but even that takes brain inhibitory power and you aren't actually doing both things. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Amazon has quite a few books on concentration, which you don't need. It's a matter of cutting the clutter out. So turn off the TV, stereo, radio, pull those plugs out of your iPods and ears and actually pay 100% attention to what you are doing. Or try listening to your music without doing anything else. You will hear things you never heard before. You just might surprise yourself at how much quality work you can do now.. bill w</div></div>
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