Deep Focus: Why Your Brain Needs Understimulation

🩵 Sign up to Milanote for free with no time-limit: https://milanote.com/elizabethfilips The downloadable free link to the video summary: https://go.elizabethfilips.com/superstimulation Self-disciplined focus is hard, and it’s not 100% our fault it’s so. Resisting tempations, having willpower, mental resilience and determination against what are (surprisngly and stupidly) interesting distractions on a constant basis makes work and rest feel exhausting. Here’s some of my approaches to making work feel easlier, life more productive and trying to minimise the negative effects of constant screen-time. Hope it helps! To make your life easier: 0:00 Intro 1:21 Willpower: distractable not depleatable 6:13 Ugh fields: why work is hard 9:50 Procrastination cure: top-down vs bottom-up decision making WHO AM I: I'm Elizabeth, a medical student, painter and Podcaster in London. I love to think and talk about life, art, medicine, books and meaning. And also how to find the time to do those things. If you'd like to watch me paint and talk about life, I do that on my podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5NsPe2poaBRA0IPdTxJTQA) and if you'd like to read my thoughts and book notes, I have a newsletter you can join (https://go.elizabethfilips.com/newsletter). 👽 My Book on Organised Chaos: How to Succeed Without Habits or Consistency: https://lizziefilips.gumroad.com/l/krcnc 🧠 My Notion Templates to Work Better With Yourself: https://lizziefilips.gumroad.com Sources Mentioned: Willpower, distractable not depleatable: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/opinion/sunday/willpower-its-in-your-head.html?_r=4&ref=opinion& Infomania, The switch-cost effect between work and social media: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7298-info-mania-dents-iq-more-than-marijuana/ Mobile phones and inattention study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4190308/ Ugh Fields: https://medium.com/@robertwiblin/ugh-fields-or-why-you-can-t-even-bear-to-think-about-that-task-5941837dac62 If you want to stay in touch: 💌 My Newsletter - https://go.elizabethfilips.com/newsletter 🎙My Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5NsPe2poaBRA0IPdTxJTQA 📕 My Book Club - https://go.elizabethfilips.com/thepensieve 📸 My Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/elizabeth.filips/ 💻 My Website - https://www.elizabethfilips.com/ 🐥 My Twitter - https://twitter.com/lizziefilips Or leave a comment, I (try to) read 100% of comments :)