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Focused is a practical guide, based on research, to finding out what breaks your focus and building habits that protect it. Chapter 1 explains what researchers have learned about how attention works in the brain. Every method in the rest of the book builds on it.
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What Chapter 1 covers
- Why researchers describe attention as three related systems, and where to start if one of them seems to be the problem
- What happens in the brain when your mind wanders, and why a wandering mind is normal
- What reward research suggests about why a phone is hard to ignore, and the limits of that research
- What studies show about improving attention with practice
- Two short exercises, including a ten-minute test of your own attention
The PDF is the chapter exactly as it appears in the printed book, with its numbered sources at the end. Focused is Book 1 of The Mastery Series by T-Michael Dougherty, Ed.D., MPA.
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