Freedom From Distraction
Technology well used is a phenomenal thing. It’s all the silly ways people apply it now that really concern. So many potentially outstanding people are suffering from ‘Broken Focus Syndrome’ because they’ve filled their professional and personal lives with so many gadgets, interruptions, and cyber noise.
If you’re in the sport of winning, please model all of the great masters of history and strip away all the layers of complexity from your days. Simplify. Streamline everything. Become a purist. Less is really more. Concentrate on just a few work projects so you can make them amazing versus diluting your attention on too many. And socially, have fewer friends but go deep with them so the relationship is rich. Accept fewer invitations, major in fewer leisure activities and study, then master, a smaller number of books versus skimming many. An intense concentration only on what matters most is how the pros realize victory. Simplify. Simplify. Simplify. “Stop managing your time and start managing your focus.”
-An excerpt from The 5 am Club by Robin Sharma
