How To Concentrate Better and Be Less Distracted

(Distractions - Concentration - Multi-Tasking)

Articles

	Letting Your Mind Wander. What is mind-wandering? And is it always such a bad thing?
	Sir, Please Put the Phone Down. Five (5) Tips to Free You From The Shackles of your Phone.
	Your Brain on Meditation.
	10 Ways to Eliminate Distractions.
	Bilingual Children Switch Tasks Faster Than Speakers of a Single Language.
	How to Get Focused: Eight (8) Things Everybody Ought to Know About Concentrating such as "concentration drives intelligence".
	Distractions Are Yours to Manage.
	Multitasking Wastes Time and Money. Research indicates that it eats up more time than waiting to finish one job before beginning the next.
	The Ethics of Multitasking - why it is not.
	Separate brain areas rule concentration and distraction (which helps to explain why some people have a harder time focusing, while others have a harder time filtering out distractions).
	Discover how to concentrate like a champion.
	How to Remove Distractions With Information Fasting.
	Defeat Tech Distractions - what you can do to reclaim your focus.
	Work Smart: Avoid Office Distractions With Time Blocking.
	Managing People Distractions (or how to keep your focus when working in close proximity to others).
	Dealing With Life's Distractions - ideas on how to cope and restore your life to a more distraction free version of what it is.
	A Case for Singletasking: The One-Task-At-a-Time Method.
	Are You Stoned or Just Multitasking?
	How to Focus: Five levels of mental focus you might not be aware of.
	Ten (10) Ways to Use Laser Sharp Focus to Get More Done (discussion on how to change your habits to change your life).
	Focus the Attention of Distracted ADHD Children. Creative ways to keep distracted children with ADHD and learning disabilities focused and engaged in the classroom and at home.
	Focus your mind by . . . doodling?
	Focus Your Thinking to achieve success at what's important to you.
	How to Relax and Focus Your Mind in Minutes.
	Multitasking is no problem for these brain cells. Scientists find that neurons in the brain's planning center can handle more than one kind of job.
	Why Multitasking Doesn't Work.
	Multitasking is the fastest way to mediocrity. A blogger's thoughts about his own multitasking universe.
	Six (6) Top Concentration Killers. Are you straying from the task at hand? Here's how to regain your focus.
	Zen and the Art of Focus.
	Why do you turn down the radio when you're lost?
	Handle Your Distractions to Keep Focused.
	Beyond Simple Multi-Tasking: Continuous Partial Attention.
	Being Focused Can Make You Happier.
	Mind Pushups - Build Concentration for Sustained Focus.
	How Focus Changes Your Brain.
	How To Achieve A State Of Flow.
	Cubicle Hell: Dealing with Distractions in an Open-Office Environment.
	Separate brain areas rule concentration and distraction. New research shows it takes one part of the brain to start concentrating and another to be distracted. This discovery could help scientists develop better treatments for attention deficit disorder.
	Seven (7) Ways to Outsmart Distractions and stay focused on the task at hand (from Family Circle Magazine).

Videos

	Why It's Hard for the Brain to Multitask.
	The Brain Cannot Multi-task. Here's what happens when you attempt to multi-task.
	Media Multitaskers Pay Mental Price. Think you can watch videos, make cell phone calls and send e-mails all at once? Stanford University experts say even trying can impair your cognitive control.
	Instant Concentration - Learn how easy it is to develop the ability to concentrate.
	Concentration Training - How To Overcome Your Brain's Mental Resistance to Concentrating.
	How to multitask effectively - multitasking tips.

Humor

	A woman tries ever so hard to set a record for not blinking.
	Pay attention when someone is speaking to you.
	Multi tasking with corporate comedian Greg Schwem.
	Dilbert: Multitasking and Idiot Proof.
	The apology robot starring in the distracted cook commercial.

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