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What do you guys do to improve your focus?

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Re: What do you guys do to improve your focus?

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1. ADHD medication 2. Break things down into small tasks 3. Checklists for all tasks, preferably on paper, crossing things out feels nice 4. Work surrounded by people, I need the accountability of being observed. Go to the office more often, use Focusmate where you pair with strangers, or even open an empty video call with just yourself and have yourself on camera on one screen. 5. In general look for environments th…

this but you almost certainly don't need the drugs

Someone else might not, I certainly do.

Re: What do you guys do to improve your focus?

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> Avoid mentioning any practice which involves technology. Why? Isn’t your doodling using “technology”? Or do you mean “Avoid mentioning any practice which involves technology that I don’t like.”

I meant it[technology] not being used directly. Open up some downloaded images with airplane mode on and doodling on a page. I enjoy it.

So you’re against the internet not technology?

Re: What do you guys do to improve your focus?

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I go to therapy and she is constantly asking me how I feel and sort of guiding my breathing.

I go to Krav Maga also and sometimes we're going pretty hard and fast striking repeatedly. It can be so tiring, but I find I can enter a zone where I am breathing deeply and slowly while going even faster or harder after I've noticed that I'm tired.

Probably summed up with "Breath Work".

Re: What do you guys do to improve your focus?

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Maybe we should all try listening to doctors instead?

shareholder pressure pushes them to over-prescribe. there were recent high-profile lawsuits regarding this. erodes trust in the profession.
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