Dr. Tommy Wood

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Huberman Lab · Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

Not to force it.

I will say that one of the best ways to like truly get

deep focused work done is to eliminate distractions right that's one of the most important things that you can do so close the email i would like put my phone in a different room or something because like nowadays your own you know close slack i have slack teams my lab and i uh we uh interact on you know we mess it back and forth on whatsapp like there's email i've got like five or six different ways that people can like constantly try and get my attention right so like

Eliminating distractions is really important.

And again, I return to Gloria Mark's work.

She wrote an excellent book called Attention Span, if anybody's really interested in this.

But you get used to a pattern of distraction such that when you're not actually being distracted, you will distract yourself.

Right.

And you can be trained out of that as well.

But so, you know, that thing where you're trying to do work and you like reach for your phone for no reason.

It's because your brain is kind of used to this pattern of around about now.

Somebody would text me or send me an email and I'll reach for my phone.

So you go looking for it, even if it hasn't happened.

But again, you can train yourself out of that if you have periods where you're not getting constantly distracted.

So I will eliminate notifications.

But at least for me, what I've found is that

If I have a ton of friction in terms of trying to get something done, I will usually step away from it because there's something in there that just needs to click or come back before I can really engage in it.

If you're at a sticking point.

Yeah.

So if I'm at a sticking point, it's like if something feels like it's just not coming in the moment,

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