CEA - How to Give Your Full Attention in a Distracted World

Whether we were studying for final exams in college, putting in the daily effort to prepare for the FE or PE exam, or trying to get any sort of task done at work, we’ve all faced the challenge of trying to focus but simply not being able to. Maybe it’s a coworker or a classmate that asks for something, maybe it's the phone that keeps ringing, or maybe it’s as simple as our cell phone staring at us. Today, Mark jumps back on to address this exact challenge and how to develop the skills to handle it.

In order to be effective, we need to focus and get things done. However, that’s not how it actually works in practice. Even though we all have deadlines to meet and only a handful of really important things to tackle, the world keeps going, and other things that may not be as important also pop up and require our attention. On the other hand, we may need to focus on a particular task but, instead of being interrupted, we simply can’t get other things out of our head, which negatively affects our results with the task at hand.

Learning how to get into a state of mind in which we can simply block everything out and focus on what we’re doing is essential. By elaborating on this concept and further discussing topics such as how to handle multiple projects, how to pick what’s a priority or not, how to allocate time to do high-priority tasks, and how to fully pay attention to the task at hand, Isaac and Mark provide the tools and techniques we can use to handle such situations.

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Deep Work, by Cal Newport - https://amzn.to/2Pl5KHX

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey - https://amzn.to/3bP2Rqx

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