As readers of my Blog know, I love using an app called Freedom…
The Freedom people also write great blogs.
The one I am about to share with you revolves around 3 words – “I’m locked in”.
No, they do not mean jail. The opposite. It is when you are a zone, in hyper-focus, and things get created and done better, faster, and with more originality.
Okay, so you are thinking, what is the big deal here?
Consider this – with all of the distractions hitting us in our always-on culture, humans have now devolved to a shorter attention span than a goldfish. The goldfish beats us by one second – 9 seconds versus 8 seconds.
(When I read that, my first thought was – how do they measure that? 😂)
It is a brilliant blog, well worth reading. One reason?
How about this – “those who can achieve deep focus are becoming exponentially more valuable”.
We intuitively know it is true because when you are hyper focused, in the zone, you just feel great.
I always wondered if sequestered monks would get bored. They do not look bored – they look serene and fulfilled.
Maybe they have always known something that we are just starting to get…
…that life spent distracted is not really living, that being focused on meaningful things, and not distracted is the key to happiness.
Here is the blog in full:
Thanks for reading…