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The Truth About Why You Are Unable To Focus (And How To Solve It Right Now)
It’s not about the tech and social media.
It’s about being unwilling to face stillness and total presence, trying frantically and unconsciously to escape from it.
Why?
Because if you enjoyed being alone, without stimuli, without information, but only with the relevant task at hand, you would not feel the need to distract yourself.
For almost everyone, this uneasy feeling of boredom and tension is too much to handle. They are conditioned to associate this feeling with an immediate urge to quiet it down, whether tech, food, or alcohol. Unconsciously, of course.
But this feeling will not go away because you distract yourself from it. If you have a pebble in your shoe, it will stay there no matter how comfortable everything is around you. The best option is to remove it.
In the same way, if you really want to focus and get ahead in life, you need to accept and welcome this feeling.
The solution
Whenever you feel jittery, anxious, tense, or immersed in many thoughts, do nothing and just observe.
Be still, observe the unease. Notice the worried feeling behind the thoughts, and the thoughts will subside. Notice…
