Take time to focus on your focus. For me, it's a really hard exercise, and before I really started to practice it daily, I always had this a priori that spending time on "doing nothing" was just a waste of time. I couldn't have been more wrong, of course.
I still feel like I have much progress to do, but now I understand how practicing the art of focusing on focus (aka "concentrate on here and now", "mindfulness" and so on) helps to focus on a selected task in general.
Also if you have indeed a [30-60] minutes vacancy window, having a nap is a good option. Especially if you have to solve some mind blowing issue. Trust the power of you unconscious force. I can't put my hand on it right now, but there is an excellent essay by Pointcarré on this topic.
Ohh Boy, I feel relate to your explanation a lot. After heavy gaming and diagnosed with ADHD. I started to think a lot about how we focus how our attention span various to the content. And it became obvious that we're losing long focus ability which is really hard to improve.
For that there's really nice book called Stillness is the Key from Ryan Holiday and Chop wood and Carry Water they're perfect examples to teach how precious focus and stillness is.
Meditation isn’t something to learn within an hour, unfortunately. It took me really much time to actually learn how to meditate but now as I know how to do it it’s awesome.
Well, there is two side of it:
- of course, meditation is an art that you don't master in the minute (and that most likely can always be further strengthen);
- anyone which has a bit of free time can practice it, all it asks is the will to improve its meditation skill to quickly feel practical benefits.
Seriously.
Take time to focus on your focus. For me, it's a really hard exercise, and before I really started to practice it daily, I always had this a priori that spending time on "doing nothing" was just a waste of time. I couldn't have been more wrong, of course.
I still feel like I have much progress to do, but now I understand how practicing the art of focusing on focus (aka "concentrate on here and now", "mindfulness" and so on) helps to focus on a selected task in general.
Also if you have indeed a [30-60] minutes vacancy window, having a nap is a good option. Especially if you have to solve some mind blowing issue. Trust the power of you unconscious force. I can't put my hand on it right now, but there is an excellent essay by Pointcarré on this topic.