Micro Series: Simple Focus Training That Transforms Attention
Learn-To-Learn2 Sep 2025

Micro Series: Simple Focus Training That Transforms Attention

Can focusing on something as simple as your hand improve your attention span? Research shows that training kids to focus on a fixed object for just one minute a week over 12 weeks significantly enhanced their ability to concentrate across multiple dimensions. This practice strengthens the brain’s ability to override distractions by developing key areas like the prefrontal cortex. In this episode, we explore how this straightforward yet powerful technique can improve focus for both kids and ad...

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Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 6

Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 6

So often our anxiety particularly gets turned up when we're in an exam room or a work meeting or when we have to present. What drives this and how do we overcome that?

25 Aug 11min

Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 5

Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 5

Anxiety is often built around the question, what if? And that what if can turn into a loop that dials up the anxiety. How do we change this?

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Micro Series: Win in Your Imagination

Micro Series: Win in Your Imagination

Athletes who miss a shot are trained to replay it in their mind until they can see themselves making it, because the brain barely distinguishes between an outcome it vividly imagines and one it actual...

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Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 4

Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 4

The purpose of anxiety is to prepare us to do something. Too little or too much causes problems. How do we turn this arousal into something that we can use and makes us better.

11 Aug 12min

Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 3

Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 3

Anxiety has a different signature in each of us. And understanding our own signature, our own pattern and being able to name it gives us the power to begin to change it.

3 Aug 12min

Micro Series: Feel the Outcome Before You Start

Micro Series: Feel the Outcome Before You Start

Stepping into the feeling of success before beginning can make focus easier and results feel inevitable.

28 Jul 1min

Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 2

Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 2

Anxiety is an invisible tax on almost everything we do. We have a limited amount of working memory and cognitive function in any given moment. Anxiety taxes that and diminishes our capacity. We Begin ...

28 Jul 11min

Micro Series: Create a Mental “Bubble” for Focus

Micro Series: Create a Mental “Bubble” for Focus

Top performers often imagine a boundary around themselves that blocks out distractions and sharpens attention.

21 Jul 1min

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