Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel.
In this video, we're gonna talk through seventeen microhabits that you can incorporate into your life to try and fix your attention span before it's too late and the robots come for us all.
The first five minutes of any task are the ones where we are the most prone to getting distracted.
There's an absolute peak of this just before we start doing the task, and then usually you find that about five minutes into the task, it's like- it's actually a lot easier to stay focused than you were at the start.
What that leads to is something really popular in the productivity space, the five-minute rule.
If you are struggling with staying focused on anything at all, just tell yourself you're gonna do it for five minutes.
Or if you're in the middle of a focus session and you're finding yourself getting distracted, tell yourself, "I'm just gonna do it for another five minutes." If you can sit through the discomfort of just doing it for five minutes, you'll usually find that it's a lot easier to stay focused and for your attention span to stay on task with that particular thing.
Consume more long-form stuff.
I'm not saying you have to cut out all forms of entertainment, but in general, the more you're consuming things that are longer form, like books or audiobooks or movies, rather than TikToks and Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, the more you are able to train your attention span to focus on stuff for a little bit longer.
Get your phone away from the bedroom.
