To summarize he asking to: 1. Relax by doing anything like Yoga, Meditation etc. 2. Unitask. i.e. Kill Multi-tasking. 3. Simplify the tasks you are doing. You are welcome!
Nikhil Arora Thanks for this, brother. I'm just 3 minutes in and I somehow find it uncomfortable to watch it all. But I couldn't take a risk of missing 10000 brain scan data. So thanks for summary.
Your arousal can be too low even if you put in a lot of effort, especially if you suffer from trauma and dissociation. My therapist recommended breaks with fast paced exercise, cold water (drinking or on hands), bright lighting, cool rooms and strong smells. They really help a lot, I no longer feel like a zombie constantly. I actually get things done and learn, rather than spending hours every day without any results, and then getting everything done in panic at the last minute when my brain actually is awake.
Although we know the things already whatever he told , but the points he mentioned backed by examples and research findings helps us to grasp the importance of those points
Have ADHD. Can confirm, I get through it at work by doing one thing at a time. I finish what I start, I move radially, but I always make sure I end in a spot that makes sense to pick up from. It took me years and a lot of expertise to figure out how to do it. The math question at the end took me 3 seconds. It was clear that it was 0 on both sides.
He who knows does not speak he who speaks does not know. Go and type jiddu Krishnamurty about attention, awerness and insight in RUclips go to the depth or else it becomes temporary. Madam
Summary/Crux :- Challenge with modern society - Information overload and Distractions. Instant information at our disposal is both blessing and curse. We are living in attention deficit disorder society/economy. Your brain can only handle and attend one thing at time. You productivity and performance will start to go down if you try multiple things at once. Tip 1 - Simplify. Try to simplify what you attend to. There is too much information, control how much information that you have to pay attention to. Tip - 2 - Relax. Performance and productivity decline if we are too much aroused or stressed ( Better can be understood with Yerkes-dodson curve ). Take deep breathing. Try Mediation/ Yoga/Prayer/Exercise / Taking a walk in garden etc. Tip - 3 - Unitask. Your brain performs best when you are not multitasking. Don't check your phone, social media every five minutes.
Thanks for showing me why I'm more productive than others... and to think I was beating myself up for not being "engaged" for the better part of the day...
Excelent tips. I personally use them for I live with ADHD. So simplify, simplify symplify is my mantra. I`ve also deactivated all the phone notifications.. that helped a lot, now I am the one that goes to the phone.. and relax.. I am working on that everyday.. need to focus more..ups.. that is an executive dysfunction not related to attention... it is important not to confuse ADHD just thinking it is an attention problem. Excelent TT
I wish someone could give beneficial advice to us single parents of high needs, highly attached children who are literally unable to unitask a majority of the time. No matter what I do (coursework, work, housework, anything), I have a young child at my heels. Constant interruptions. Constant. I'd pay so much for a workable solution. I'd be paying for my sanity back! :)
Plan your day. Before planning observe your day. Most of the things will be repetitively happening on your daily life. You just don't see it yet as you don't observe properly. You say you have a kid. Good. I don't know what his age is but I am assuming he is between 5 to 10 proper age to be able to do house chores. That way he will be engaged in something as well as get a good habit of working. Don't give him heavy tasks but give him light tasks like arranging the cups and plates. At first he will be hesitant but with a little bit of strictness he will get the job done. As you say you are a single mother you already know how tough life is so preparing your child for it wouldn't be bad idea at all. Don't be overprotective with your son. And for you plan your day to day activities. Prioritize those job which are more important. Stick to the plan. Somedays you won't be able to work according to your plan. Don't worry it happens to everyone. Remember a plan is a promise to your future self. If you can't keep a promise you make to yourself how do you think you can keep promises that you make to others. So, hope this helps. And try to become rich. Money solves a lot of the problems that you might be facing right now.
Simplify - What is the next one thing I can do to be able to go one step forward toward my goal? Deconstruct a goal you're trying to achieve or a skill you're trying obtain. Relax - often the unhealthy things that we think about are the things that is keeping us anxious or rushed such as "am I doing right thing?", "when will I able to get this done?", "I'm i good or smart enough to have success on what I'm doing?" and these thoughts are focus and productivity killers. When these thoughts comes into our awareness we are not to entertain them and they will gradually go away as we achieve effortless execution where we execute tasks at a relaxing and effortless manner with high focus and efficiency. Unitasking - this is a result of simplifying and relaxation concept. When you simplify and find relaxation then you'll notice that you are doing one thing at a time and you exactly know what is that one thing and you'll find high focus and efficiency executing.
very useful,especially the third one,unitasking doesnt mean there re only one thing left,but we can organize them,making the most important and making it finished first!maybe it is a good method for me to solve the anxiety because of work😄
First time I watched the Ted talk without scrolling for the comments. Still I missed a lot of tests shown on the video. This shows the level of focus required. Multitasking is a myth.
I really like this video, but personally I learn better by multitasking. Meaning when I study, I switch subjects every 15 minutes, and since I've been doing that (also playing mind strengthening games and constantly analyzing everything around me- which is also a great way to get rid of boredom) I've been able to recall information faster, and learning with less "effort". But my opinion aside this was a good ted talk!
I agree with the only being able to concentrate on one thing at a time. I could never really truly multi task - yes, I can throw a load of laundry in and then go mow the lawn while the washer is going but can’t actually do two things. I am reading the book, “The One Thing”, and Gary Keller talks about how multi-tasking is a myth and the funny thing is, corporations want you to “multi-task”. That makes you so much less efficient.
Focus, when in a not comfort zone Comfort zone is an environment when you don't need to constantly fight for your life. You get used to.. Focus is limited. How to be flexible? Yeker-doarson curve(stress, performance) Simplify, relax, unitask Slice it. Divide and conquer
Brilliant! So this is why I'm so tired and unsatisfied of my work, operating at the same time in four different areas of my branch, switching them for a call.. My brain is quite normal, hurra! :) It was worth to focus on the content of this presentation, not on the body language and voice ;)
For those of us who've lived with inattentive variant of ADD (as opposed to more usual Hyperactive A D D), it's because of the way our brains are wired, and no amount of breathing exercises, relaxation, or focusing would change that fact. That can be a disastrous impediment to succeeding, for at least some of us. However, OTOH, the positive is that we rarely feel boredom. Proposed quick test for I.A.D.D = "When was the last time you were bored?" Answer: "can't remember, it was so long ago." QTN: "How many books do you like to read at the same time?" Answer if you have IADD "at least 4 or 5. and so few do I get to finish within a reasonable time, if at all, even if the book fascinates me." QTN "How often are you able to listen to another's story of what happened to him/her, but the story he/she tries to tell you, lasts over 2 minutes, without losing track of what's just been said?" Answer: "Never." I just wonder if others who are known to have ADD, found the alternating numbers easier to focus on, as at 17.59??? They were more far more interesting for my mind to calculate, when alternated, and hence my focus was better for the right side of the numbers when jumbled, than for the left side, where I kept having to force my brain to keep the concentration needed to complete the task, and did so far slower. If this is significant for an ADD sufferer, and a reversal of the norm (where most find the left side easier to calculate quickly), then in that respect too, it's a very interesting test indeed!
I used to Open 4 -5 books at once and never finish them. Now i comit to finish each book i start and read one at a time . I now able to finish 1 book per week.
The solution for high concentration is not a behavioural strategy, but a neurological configuration and constitution. It can be conditioned therapeutically: One part behaviour (concentrating), plus one part neurotoxin and metal ions. And overnight those nerve structures that were mainly used the day before are stabilised by the metal. The nerve poison ensures that the brain is globally active, the metal then integrates itself into the regions that were used the most and then stabilises (increases) their electrical potentials. Stably increased voltage in the cells turns into concentration. The fact that only behaviours and strategies of working and thinking are supposed to help is not enough. This neuroenhancing effect is needed to make the brain regions electrically stable.
Thank you for this video on What Makes Some Brains More Focused Than Others. The topic of focus/sustained attention is discussed, from time to time, at the ADHD Bulletin Board - a Yahoo Group. Thank you. X-ref: Neurology, Nutrition, Brainwaves, Inattentive ADHD, Absence Epilepsy, Complex Partial Epilepsy, Brain Concussions, Sports Concussions, Metaphysics, Thought, New Thought., The Psalms, Spiritual Metaphysics, Relaxation, Entering the Silence, Meditation, Prayer, Visualization, Mind Movies, etc. Brain-mind medicines do work for a few with neurological ADHD or neurological epilepsy. X-ref: Nerves in Collision (book) by Walter C. Alvarez. Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind. - C. Fillmore
To summarize he asking to:
1. Relax by doing anything like Yoga, Meditation etc.
2. Unitask. i.e. Kill Multi-tasking.
3. Simplify the tasks you are doing.
You are welcome!
Thank you watching the video for me. It helped save my precious time & bandwidth
thanks man :)
Nikhil Arora 👏👏👏👏
Saved my 18 minutes. Thanks buddy
Nikhil Arora Thanks for this, brother. I'm just 3 minutes in and I somehow find it uncomfortable to watch it all. But I couldn't take a risk of missing 10000 brain scan data. So thanks for summary.
Your arousal can be too low even if you put in a lot of effort, especially if you suffer from trauma and dissociation. My therapist recommended breaks with fast paced exercise, cold water (drinking or on hands), bright lighting, cool rooms and strong smells. They really help a lot, I no longer feel like a zombie constantly. I actually get things done and learn, rather than spending hours every day without any results, and then getting everything done in panic at the last minute when my brain actually is awake.
Very helpful
Cut noise
I am in the same situation , i feel awake in pánic or after provoking an incident i also feel more awake .
Although we know the things already whatever he told , but the points he mentioned backed by examples and research findings helps us to grasp the importance of those points
Everything you do -
Everything you encounter -
Everything you experience -
------- is changing your brain --------
Have ADHD. Can confirm, I get through it at work by doing one thing at a time. I finish what I start, I move radially, but I always make sure I end in a spot that makes sense to pick up from. It took me years and a lot of expertise to figure out how to do it.
The math question at the end took me 3 seconds. It was clear that it was 0 on both sides.
Wow dude
He is a great teacher! Don't miss this talk relying on the summaries!
1. Relax by doing anything - breathe
2. focus on one task
3. Simplify the tasks you are doing.
Do you know that lofi music helps your brain to focus while studying or working and can actually improve productivity? Give it a try!
You’re the goat
Bro is Lori boy😂
How to be more produtive at the job:
1. Simplify
2. Relax
3. Be unitask
Out of all the ted talks and other videos about attention, this is one of the best. Thanks
He who knows does not speak he who speaks does not know. Go and type jiddu Krishnamurty about attention, awerness and insight in RUclips go to the depth or else it becomes temporary. Madam
Summary/Crux :-
Challenge with modern society - Information overload and Distractions.
Instant information at our disposal is both blessing and curse.
We are living in attention deficit disorder society/economy.
Your brain can only handle and attend one thing at time. You productivity and performance will start to go down if you try multiple things at once.
Tip 1 - Simplify. Try to simplify what you attend to. There is too much information, control how much information that you have to pay attention to.
Tip - 2 - Relax. Performance and productivity decline if we are too much aroused or stressed ( Better can be understood with Yerkes-dodson curve ).
Take deep breathing. Try Mediation/ Yoga/Prayer/Exercise / Taking a walk in garden etc.
Tip - 3 - Unitask. Your brain performs best when you are not multitasking. Don't check your phone, social media every five minutes.
He really simplifies it, In a simple style.
this is the main problem of todays life the continuous switching of information really distract your mind ,good research 👍
Thanks for showing me why I'm more productive than others... and to think I was beating myself up for not being "engaged" for the better part of the day...
It is very useful and scientific speech please stop blaming the speaker's tongue or gesture . it is a great speech!.
Most underrated video on Tedx
Excelent tips. I personally use them for I live with ADHD. So simplify, simplify symplify is my mantra. I`ve also deactivated all the phone notifications.. that helped a lot, now I am the one that goes to the phone.. and relax.. I am working on that everyday.. need to focus more..ups.. that is an executive dysfunction not related to attention... it is important not to confuse ADHD just thinking it is an attention problem. Excelent TT
Just Amazing, Excellent talk
One of the best Ted talks.
I really appreciate the summaries. They really help. Please keep doing them!
Excellent and so true!! This is one of the best TED talks I have watched!
Great interesting and informative talk. Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true.
I wish someone could give beneficial advice to us single parents of high needs, highly attached children who are literally unable to unitask a majority of the time. No matter what I do (coursework, work, housework, anything), I have a young child at my heels. Constant interruptions. Constant.
I'd pay so much for a workable solution. I'd be paying for my sanity back! :)
Plan your day. Before planning observe your day. Most of the things will be repetitively happening on your daily life. You just don't see it yet as you don't observe properly. You say you have a kid. Good. I don't know what his age is but I am assuming he is between 5 to 10 proper age to be able to do house chores. That way he will be engaged in something as well as get a good habit of working. Don't give him heavy tasks but give him light tasks like arranging the cups and plates. At first he will be hesitant but with a little bit of strictness he will get the job done. As you say you are a single mother you already know how tough life is so preparing your child for it wouldn't be bad idea at all. Don't be overprotective with your son. And for you plan your day to day activities. Prioritize those job which are more important. Stick to the plan. Somedays you won't be able to work according to your plan. Don't worry it happens to everyone. Remember a plan is a promise to your future self. If you can't keep a promise you make to yourself how do you think you can keep promises that you make to others. So, hope this helps. And try to become rich. Money solves a lot of the problems that you might be facing right now.
Enjoyed each second of this video,
Thanks Marvin for sharing your wonderful experiences.
Simplify - What is the next one thing I can do to be able to go one step forward toward my goal? Deconstruct a goal you're trying to achieve or a skill you're trying obtain.
Relax - often the unhealthy things that we think about are the things that is keeping us anxious or rushed such as "am I doing right thing?", "when will I able to get this done?", "I'm i good or smart enough to have success on what I'm doing?" and these thoughts are focus and productivity killers. When these thoughts comes into our awareness we are not to entertain them and they will gradually go away as we achieve effortless execution where we execute tasks at a relaxing and effortless manner with high focus and efficiency.
Unitasking - this is a result of simplifying and relaxation concept. When you simplify and find relaxation then you'll notice that you are doing one thing at a time and you exactly know what is that one thing and you'll find high focus and efficiency executing.
Thank you Ted
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು Ted
Best ted talk I came across so far.
very useful,especially the third one,unitasking doesnt mean there re only one thing left,but we can organize them,making the most important and making it finished first!maybe it is a good method for me to solve the anxiety because of work😄
Very practical and eyeopener insights. Thanks for sharing this lifechanger talk!.
First time I watched the Ted talk without scrolling for the comments. Still I missed a lot of tests shown on the video. This shows the level of focus required. Multitasking is a myth.
I cant even watch this video without scrolling through the comments and writing one myself 😭
I really like this video, but personally I learn better by multitasking. Meaning when I study, I switch subjects every 15 minutes, and since I've been doing that (also playing mind strengthening games and constantly analyzing everything around me- which is also a great way to get rid of boredom) I've been able to recall information faster, and learning with less "effort". But my opinion aside this was a good ted talk!
That's not multi-tasking. What you described is context switching.
I agree with the only being able to concentrate on one thing at a time. I could never really truly multi task - yes, I can throw a load of laundry in and then go mow the lawn while the washer is going but can’t actually do two things. I am reading the book, “The One Thing”, and Gary Keller talks about how multi-tasking is a myth and the funny thing is, corporations want you to “multi-task”. That makes you so much less efficient.
its really helpful and i'm enjoying your tips .These three tips really helps people to be focused.
Thanks Marvin - that was really useful. Just what I needed!
One of the best tes talks i have heard!👍
the best and easy to follow exercise to improve your focus,
ADD is creative, innovative but it also allows for great focus and attention.
Iegendary speech..!!! Thank you for sharing
this video deserves more than that it has now.
PERFECT PRESENTATION. I LIKE THIS.
Very helpful ..much appreciated
Focus, when in a not comfort zone
Comfort zone is an environment when you don't need to constantly fight for your life. You get used to..
Focus is limited. How to be flexible?
Yeker-doarson curve(stress, performance)
Simplify, relax, unitask
Slice it.
Divide and conquer
Good video. Excellent communication skills, good tone of voice and inflections. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for your precious talk , i will follow these tips from now on .
Simplify
Relax
Unitask
Amazing!! U have helped so much people with your work.
I wish the tip about how to simply task was more elaborate. Relax and unitask was explained so well.
Brilliant! So this is why I'm so tired and unsatisfied of my work, operating at the same time in four different areas of my branch, switching them for a call.. My brain is quite normal, hurra! :) It was worth to focus on the content of this presentation, not on the body language and voice ;)
Your work is to the point
It was simple, yet great. Thanks
Very practical Simplify Relax and Unitask Thank you very much
Thankyou doctor ! This was soooo useful ! 🙂 Much Needed 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Very interesting presentation.
Guys we always need things like this
Thankyou so much ..from now i will apply this method .
Why not a million views for this ??
I hope you this video will gain more views.. That's absolutely good
For those of us who've lived with inattentive variant of ADD (as opposed to more usual Hyperactive A D D), it's because of the way our brains are wired, and no amount of breathing exercises, relaxation, or focusing would change that fact. That can be a disastrous impediment to succeeding, for at least some of us. However, OTOH, the positive is that we rarely feel boredom. Proposed quick test for I.A.D.D = "When was the last time you were bored?" Answer: "can't remember, it was so long ago." QTN: "How many books do you like to read at the same time?" Answer if you have IADD "at least 4 or 5. and so few do I get to finish within a reasonable time, if at all, even if the book fascinates me." QTN "How often are you able to listen to another's story of what happened to him/her, but the story he/she tries to tell you, lasts over 2 minutes, without losing track of what's just been said?" Answer: "Never."
I just wonder if others who are known to have ADD, found the alternating numbers easier to focus on, as at 17.59??? They were more far more interesting for my mind to calculate, when alternated, and hence my focus was better for the right side of the numbers when jumbled, than for the left side, where I kept having to force my brain to keep the concentration needed to complete the task, and did so far slower. If this is significant for an ADD sufferer, and a reversal of the norm (where most find the left side easier to calculate quickly), then in that respect too, it's a very interesting test indeed!
Infj alert.
I used to Open 4 -5 books at once and never finish them. Now i comit to finish each book i start and read one at a time . I now able to finish 1 book per week.
Great Ted talk.
Brilliant presentation based on research and concrete evidences.......terrific presentation skills as well :)
Owsum perfect knowledge about human phycology
The last example was so easy, it's just equal number of blues and reds on both the sides. You don't even need to add or subtract to get the answer.
so big stories by great people, I will try to impart in my life.
It's really a great lecture on attention of mind by giving some good illustrative example...Thank you Tedx...
Thank you Prof Chun.
So prioritise and execute
Why 'you using Peterson's voice tho?
Abby MD bruh I was so confused when I first heard it lool
Exactly
Haha.
Hahahahaha
HAHAHA!
Thanks!! This is a very informative and good video
So basic but so hard to do... thank you!
Such a great talk!
➡ Simplify
➡ Relax
➡ Unitask
Superb presentation 👏 👌
The solution for high concentration is not a behavioural strategy, but a neurological configuration and constitution. It can be conditioned therapeutically: One part behaviour (concentrating), plus one part neurotoxin and metal ions. And overnight those nerve structures that were mainly used the day before are stabilised by the metal. The nerve poison ensures that the brain is globally active, the metal then integrates itself into the regions that were used the most and then stabilises (increases) their electrical potentials. Stably increased voltage in the cells turns into concentration.
The fact that only behaviours and strategies of working and thinking are supposed to help is not enough. This neuroenhancing effect is needed to make the brain regions electrically stable.
Brilliant stuff. Thank you!!
wow ! this is really helpful. we should just unitask. thumbs up for this video and share it among your friends 😊
To the point perfect speech
this was very useful, great talk
Wow. Thanks for this ❤️
thank u Dr its very useful ..
wow an excllent presentation
Really great ideas, thanks 👏
Thanks so much for sharing this video! Learned a lot and will start applying the tips right away!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👌👌
Thank you
Simplify, relax and single task
Last tip about multitasking vs unit tasking was great.
Excellent.
Thank you for this video on What Makes Some Brains More Focused Than Others. The topic of focus/sustained attention is discussed, from time to time, at the ADHD Bulletin Board - a Yahoo Group. Thank you. X-ref: Neurology, Nutrition, Brainwaves, Inattentive ADHD, Absence Epilepsy, Complex Partial Epilepsy, Brain Concussions, Sports Concussions, Metaphysics, Thought, New Thought., The Psalms, Spiritual Metaphysics, Relaxation, Entering the Silence, Meditation, Prayer, Visualization, Mind Movies, etc. Brain-mind medicines do work for a few with neurological ADHD or neurological epilepsy. X-ref: Nerves in Collision (book) by Walter C. Alvarez. Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind. - C. Fillmore
Thank you, you look like a smart guy actually..so I am convinced.
Brilliant work
Great suggestion, thank you for your work. Rk
Thanks for he knowledge, going to share this to my colleague and friends.
Too unfortunate that
many job descriptions still say
*- Ability to multitask"
:/
Yup, they're trying to destroy their own company. LUL
Multitask means doing 2 or more tasks in a day, but perform one at a time.
One can do 4 different tasks each one hour.
They don't care if its don't perfect just that its done.
Amazing !
Great lesson. Thanks
Brilliant mind. Good job man!
very great speech
Adorable 😻😻😻😻😻 just mesmerized
Excellent video
Simplify, Relax, Unitask
Loved it!
Unitask
Simplify your tasks
Relax(do not overload your brain)