Dr. Zelana Montminy

So you're consciously choosing what to attune to, where to place your attention.

So focus is actually a choice, which is why so many people feel

Like they have no control anymore because they've given away focus.

They don't even, they're not intentional about what they respond to.

And then concentration is the more, it's the stamina.

It's like the ethos behind your focus.

It's how much cognitive energy you're applying to that one thing.

It's almost like a zoom function, right?

On a camera.

Great question.

And we're always going to have things that are thrown at us.

So that's inevitable is having the noise of life consume us.

So the real work is in the micro habits, the day-to-day functions that we employ, the boundaries that we cultivate around our days and our time in order to choose how to respond to things versus just be super, super reactive.

So most of the time people have content and information coming at them and they just

it all feels very urgent.

Our brain is in fight or flight.

Someone else's emergency is also ours, and it becomes very sort of nebulous and contagious, right?

And so it's very critical that we take moments of time to outline priorities that are important and urgent and knock things out in chunks, understanding that our brain can't focus inevitably.

We don't have a

An unlimited amount of attention and focus, by the way.