
“The more focus training (i.e. meditation) you do, it’s like hitting the gym, that ‘muscle’ gets stronger, and then it becomes easier to then in turn focus,” says Dr Sahar Yousef, a UC Berkeley-trained cognitive neuroscientist. When your focus is prioritized on what’s happening now, you will improve your concentration over tim…
To improve your focus, structure your day in chunks of focused work. Pick your most important task and set a limited time to do it in the right environment. It can be half an hour or twenty minutes or less. Then, work on incrementally increasing the amount of time you’re focused on a task.