People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.

― Steve Jobs

• selective attention
  • make that part of your identity
  • train your brain to what you wanna see
  • what you focus on expands
  • what is your future self
• stragetic ignorance
  • no FOMO
  • almost everything is a distraction
  • essentialism
  • you don't need to be informed about most things
  • if you have clear goals/values you want to be imformed only about what matters
  • what are you an expert of that is not driving your future self
  • what are the things you should be ignorant of
  • your input determants your outlook which determince your performance
  • shape your environment to induce flow states
  • rules on technology
    • airplane mode
    • you definitly for you first 90min of your day
      • morning is a optimal state
  • don't open yourself up to other people's agendas
    • you are walking into an casino
    • you don't know what the environment will be and basically playing ping/pong
  • be purposeful about a single key output
  • "we are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to lesser goals"
  • to apply you need to have values/belives/goals
    • what actually matters to you
  • create environment and ruls where you're not letting so many things push you off course
• totalitarian principle
  • anything that is not forbidden becomes compulsory
  • out of reaction
  • not intentional
  • define what you want
    • than create environment and rules
  • define a change and then make that public
    • ask your environment to support you in that change
• work way to long
  • work on 3-5h really good hours a day
  • result ecconomy
    • focus on the desired result in the most effective way
  • time and effort ecconomy
    • focus and more time and effort
  • focus on results and performance and not time and effort
• recovery
  • psychological detachment of work
  • hobbies
  • relationships
• Effortless Ouput
  • Remove all distractions
  • Clean working space
  • Energy/state management
  • Close everthing else
  • Full screen apps
  • Time block tasks (1/2 hour)
    • Tasks expand to fill the time given to them
    • 80% done is infinitely better than 100% ideal
    • Give them a place in your calendar
    • 1/2 hour or less to start
  • Flow triggers
    • music

courses

• https://www.life-of-focus-course.com/cs45wr32.html

References

• https://blog.complice.co/post/105218135607/5-simple-hacks-to-avoid-serious-facebook-gmail