Your plan for feeling cannot concentrate
Make attention easier to hold.
When concentration is thin, change the way you interact with the material instead of repeatedly staring at it.
Choose how you want to approach it
Keep in mind
- Attention naturally changes through the day.
- Active learning is easier to hold than passive reading.
- Short returns still train focus.
Step-by-step
- 01
Reduce the input
Keep one page, question, or paragraph visible and hide everything else. Keep this move under five minutes.
- 02
Use your own words
After one small section, look away and say what it meant aloud. Keep this move under five minutes.
- 03
Create a question
Turn the section heading into a question you can answer. Keep this move under five minutes.
- 04
Work in short returns
Use eight focused minutes, pause for two, then return once. Keep this move under five minutes.