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How to Get Your Brain to Focus | Chris Bailey | TEDxManchester

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B1

Nível CEFR

5/10

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Legendas (306 segmentos)

00:00

Translator: Viviane P. Reviewer: Amanda Chu

00:06

A few years ago,

00:08

I began to observe something in my own behavior

00:12

that made me a bit uncomfortable.

00:16

And that was that from the moment that I woke up to the end of the day,

00:22

my life was a series of screens.

00:25

I started the day

00:26

with the thing that woke me up first thing in the morning, my phone,

00:30

and so I sat there in bed watching various cooking videos on Instagram

00:34

and bouncing around between a bunch of different applications.

00:37

But then it was time to get out of bed and cook breakfast,

00:41

and so the thing that I focused then on,

00:43

in addition to the omelette in the pan,

00:46

was the iPad that was right next to the oven.

00:49

And then it was time to do some work,

00:51

and so I went to a different screen

00:53

which was attached to another screen itself.

00:55

All the while,

00:56

this little devil on my wrist

00:58

was tapping and beeping and blooping and distracting me

01:02

as I was trying to get important stuff done.

01:07

But there was one particular offender out of all of these different devices

01:14

that I wasted more time on than anything else.

01:17

That was this dastardly thing: my phone.

01:21

I could spend hours on this thing every single day.

01:24

And so I decided to essentially, for all intents and purposes,

01:27

get rid of the thing for a month.

01:30

As an experiment, I thought,

01:31

"I'm going to live on this thing for just 30 minutes every single day

01:35

at a maximum."

01:37

And so this is the amount of time I have for maps,

01:39

this is the amount of time to call my mother,

01:41

this is the amount of time I have

01:43

for everything that I could possibly want to do,

01:45

to listen to music, to listen to podcasts,

01:47

and I observed what happened during this time.

01:52

It took about a week

01:55

to adjust downward into a new, lower level of stimulation,

02:00

but once I did,

02:02

I noticed that three curious things began to happen.

02:08

First, my attention span grew.

02:11

It was like I could focus on things,

02:13

not effortlessly,

02:14

but with much more ease than I could before this experiment started.

02:20

In addition to this, though, as I was going about the world

02:23

and especially when my mind wandered a bit,

02:25

I had more ideas that my mind arrived at,

02:29

and on top of this,

02:31

I had more plans and thoughts about the future.

02:35

Getting rid of one simple device led to these three effects.

02:42

Why?

02:45

Noticing this a few years back led me on this long journey

02:50

to get to the bottom of what it takes to focus in a world of distraction.

02:55

I pored over hundreds of research papers from front to back at my office.

03:00

I don't know if you've ever watched one of those crime shows

03:02

where somebody's solving a murder.

03:04

And so they have this big Bristol board,

03:06

and there's string attached to papers

03:08

attached to memos attached to newspaper clippings -

03:10

this is like what the state of my office was.

03:12

I flew out to meet experts around the world who study focus;

03:15

I conducted more experiments on myself

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