Dr. Andrew Huberman

and the data, I've looked at them quite extensively, that even a short period of time of learning to entrain one's focus on a fixation point, so this would be the virgin's eye movement, this is the cuttlefish ready to eat or mate, not the cuttlefish swimming around looking for potential predators in panoramic mode, doing that for a short period of time of even a minute or three minutes can allow one to bring online the neural circuits that allow for enhanced focus in the subsequent 10 to 20 minutes, which is a pretty reasonable bout of work if you think about it,

And here's another important point.

None of us, none of us, ADHD sufferers or otherwise, should expect ourselves to be in perfect trenches, deep trenches of focus all the time.

That's an unreasonable request for your nervous system.

You can build up a capacity to focus, and of course, we can all focus best on things that we really enjoy.

In fact, children and adults with ADHD are known to have tremendous focusing capacity if they're focusing on something they really enjoy.

This has been shown over and over again, which means that the capacity to focus is there, it's just that the threshold to focus is higher, which means that it's harder to access, and these visual fixation

They're not even experiments.

You can literally just place a visual target on the wall, you know, one to three feet away, force yourself to stare at that visual focus point and then move into your work.

And you'll notice that your mind will flit away from whatever it is you're trying to focus on.

But with some training, you can build up an enhanced capacity to focus.

It does require you flip your phone over, you turn it off, you leave it in the other room, you remove distractions.

Some people even find, children will find if they wear a brimmed hat and a hoodie, which basically took me through most of high school for other reasons.

If you do that, you can create a more narrow tunnel of vision.

This is the reason they put blinders on horses.

So it sounds somewhat medieval.

It sounds somewhat primitive or crude.

But once again, what we're really talking about is removing the expectation that focus is like a square wave function where, you know, you sit down, you open your book, and boom, you're focused.

I mean, you wouldn't expect that of physical people.

performance, would you?