How to stay focused
Comment rester concentré
Des astuces pour augmenter sa concentration.
A l'heure où le télétravail est à nouveau devenu la règle, beaucoup peinent à retrouver à la maison la même concentration qu'au bureau. Voici quelques astuces pour maintenir votre attention et bien vous organiser…
The average person’s mind wanders 47% of the time, according to a 2010 Harvard University study, so nearly half the time you’re doing one thing, you’re thinking about something else.
2. “Some would argue that human attention, not money, is the most valuable commodity there is,” said Angela Duckworth, author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. “It’s the ultimate scarce resource.”
3. The good news, however, is that focus is a skill you can cultivate and improve. And your brain can learn to ignore distractions. Here are some techniques to try, aimed at increasing both your attention and productivity amid the pandemic.
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DISENGAGE FROM DISTRACTIONS.
4. For at-home workers struggling with distraction, a recent survey revealed that social media is the leading cause.
5. You can reduce those distracting dings, tweets and rings coming from your social media feeds, emails and text messages by simply turning off the notifications. That’s right, just turn them off.
6. If that feels radical, you can attempt turning away from technology using self-control, but as Duckworth said, “Willpower is a limiting resource; it’s unpleasant and we’re not willing to do it for very long, so the best thing to do is create a situation where it’s just harder to be distracted.” In her research on self-control in teenagers, data showed that the farther away students placed their phone while studying, the higher their grades. “If you’re trying to control your attention, don’t just try to do it with willpower,” she said. “You literally need to hack your physical space.”
7. When your focus wanes and you feel the urge to online shop or grab a game of 2048, there are tech tools to prevent your giving in. The Freedom app blocks websites from your computer and smartphone; Forest has you set a timer encircling the image of a tree; if you pick up your phone before the time is completed, the tree withers and dies.
STICK TO A SCHEDULE.
8. Increasing your focus nowadays means planning your workday thoughtfully, having set start and stop times and specific blocks for just about everything in between. That includes meetings and tasks like writing, reading, editing or researching, as well as breaks to eat, exercise and read emails.
9. “The way to bring structure is by making a schedule that constrains our time,” Eyal said. “We perform at our best when we know what our day is going to look like.”
10. Rather than keeping a to-do list, with tasks that often go unfinished and get recycled onto the next day’s list, Eyal suggests using a timebox calendar. “Because there are only 24 hours in a day, a calendar forces you to prioritize, to make a choice — do I want to do this or that?” he said. “With a timebox calendar, the goal is not to finish anything; the goal is to work on that task for as long as you said you would without distraction.”