How to Focus and Flow Flashcards
Are stimulants good for productivity? (e.g., coffee, nicotine, cocaine)
Not always! Stimulant consumers deactivate their default mode network, reducing creativity to think about the task’s end goal. Clinically proven, that stimulants are not associated with a good performance for intelligent tasks.
What is the most critical and general problem in IT?
The problem between the chair and keyboard (PBCK)!
How the default mode network can be exploited for studying?
Everyone can set the trajectory for the DMN by defining the willing outcome. Students can set the trajectory for the DMN that will pull them thru the cloud of unknowing until the pursued end of achieved goal.
What are the two components of the flow state?
The first component is a deliberate attention towards the task that has prevented distractions and ready to conserve the engagement. The second component is an active default mode network that is not occupied with distracting ourselves but with finding creative ways on how to achieve the final goal.
How to prevent distractions?
Unfortunately, too many things try to lower an engagement away, such as other work, habits, entertainment, depression, daydreaming, and the cloud of unknowing. You should apply your intelligence and mindfullness to avoid the urge remaining traction, and bring order into things to prevent them taking over life. Some good practises are:
- Clean your desk
- Find a silent place or use earplugs
- Face the wall
- Strategise on justifiable deadlines.
- Put away electronic devices.
- Prepare a paper with a pen to write down all the vibrant thoughts.
What is the best phrase to tell yourself to apply reframing in order to mitigate distraction?
“That is actually the best task for me.”
How to identify the flow state?
Flow comes from the inside and can not be analysed from the outside. Thus, it is very complicated to describe the flow from an analytical point of view. However, a feeling of time flying while working indicates on the flow states.
How to set the stage to flow for work?
The flow consists of the three vital actions applied to the work:
1. You should plan the upcoming job.
2. You should engage the job with full intensity launch.
3. You should maintain the intensity until the achievement.
How to mitigate distractions?
Distraction is the urge to give up the task. Distraction is a feeling to avoid the current activity and switch to something else. Mitigate distractions by habituating rejection to the urge to distraction: feel the pull but keep engaging in the task.
What is the Default Mode Network?
DMN — is a network of interacting brain regions that is active when a person is not focused on the outside world.
