Jim Kwik

driving a car, you know, mental muscles.

But I think deep work blocks is very important.

Setting a timer and saying for next 25 minutes for a Pomodoro technique, I'm just going to focus on this one thing.

Or you could expand it.

You could do a whole ultranian cycle for 90 minutes.

Cal Newport talks a lot about deep work.

But that's a way of developing your focus muscles.

But if the first thing you do is pick up your phone,

like, share, comment, cat video, whatever is just driving this dopamine distraction, then you wonder why you can't focus in a meeting, right?

Or in a sales call or with a client.

And I would go back to focus exercise as meditation because I don't meditate at all

to become enlightened.

I meditate because invariably my thoughts will go somewhere else and when I pull it back to my breath or a mantra or a candle, whatever your technique is, then I'm training my focus muscles.

I built a pathway back to being present

And so when I'm distracted later on with our kids, with a client, whatever, I can pull my focus back faster than normally.

And then the last thing I would say about distraction and focus is you have to master your environment.

The most underrated hack there is, is managing your environment, period.

Just like when it's sleep.

If you built out a sleep sanctuary where it's very conducive, when you go in that environment, you get into that relaxed state.

But if you're working in your bed, or you're doom scrolling, what are you telling your brain and your nervous system to anchor to that activity?