Dr. Dave Rabin

And that's why I wrote this book, is to make it easier to understand what we can learn from these tremendous discoveries in science and then how to translate them into practice, starting with education and the school system.

And just be better at optimizing the state of the body for...

what we're asking people to do, right?

If we want people to learn to concentrate, we have to teach them how to focus for extended periods of time.

You can't just throw people into a room and say, concentrate on this thing that really bores you without teaching them how to do it.

That's silly, right?

So attention is a huge part of that because attention is our most important skill, which is also one of the major topics of the book that we don't teach properly.

And it's a muscle.

So by learning to train your attention,

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then every time we notice where our attention has wandered and redirected back, which is basic mindfulness, all of a sudden we do a rep.

That's a rep.

That's like a bicep rep, right?

My attention has wandered.

Oh, let's bring it back to the goal, right?

You've just done a rep.

And now you're increasing the strength of the wiring of your attention muscle, which makes it easier to focus next time.

But we're not asking people to do that.