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What Happens When You Give Your Brain Permission To Focus
My mind used to feel like a browser with forty-seven tabs open.
Each one was demanding my attention while I tried to keep up with deadlines, notifications, sports commitments, and social plans.
Everything felt urgent and overwhelming.
Here's something that still makes me cringe:
I was sitting in what should've been my favourite class at uni, studying psychology — the subject I'd been obsessed with for years. Instead of listening to career-shaping content, I scrolled through my phone, watched random reels, and checked stories of people I barely knew.
When the lecture ended and I packed up my completely blank notebook, reality hit me. That night, I discovered that "multitasking" doesn't actually exist. Our brains are just switching between tasks, which comes with serious costs:
- Increased stress hormones are flooding our brains
- Significantly reduced cognitive performance
- Higher error rates in everything we do
- Mental exhaustion that feels impossible to shake
I was living proof of this.
That night, staring at the ceiling with my mind racing, I decided to change my approach to life.
I was done being scattered, done feeling like I was always running behind some invisible deadline. But instead of trying to revolutionise my entire existence overnight, I started with one simple change:
I would move my phone to another room during meals and before bed.
It sounds almost ridiculously simple, but this tiny shift created space for my attention to come back.
When I stopped trying to do everything at once, something magical happened:
- I started finishing things that mattered to me.
- Conversations with friends became deeper and more meaningful.
- I was fully present instead of half-listening while checking notifications.
- Food started tasting better because I was actually tasting it instead of mindlessly eating while watching videos.
- Sleep came easier because my mind wasn't buzzing with digital crap right before bed.
We can't control how fast the world moves around us, but we absolutely can control how fast we choose to move through our own lives and where we invest our most valuable resource: our attention.
The question isn't whether you have time for more intentional living.
The question is whether you can afford to keep living scattered when peace and focus are just one slight change away.
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What Happens When You Give Your Brain Permission To Focus
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