The age of loss of concentration
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Book Introduction
Now is the time to regain the focus that was lost.
Altman's team at Michigan State University conducted a concentration experiment on 300 students.
We showed students working on computers pop-up windows of various lengths and measured how quickly their attention was broken.
As a result, the rate of errors due to concentration loss doubled even with a 2.8-second pop-up window.
What if you're deep in your work when a text message notification goes off? It's not easy to ignore it and continue what you were doing.
It's hard to concentrate on work just because you're curious about what the text message says, and once you check it, it's hard to regain your lost focus.
As you do this, all sorts of other temptations will suddenly rush in, and before you know it, an hour will have passed as you fall into the dopamine-stimulating algorithm.
When you're in the middle of brainstorming for a creative idea, the sound of your notification ringing just as you're about to have a good one makes you forget what you were thinking about.
If you go to the gym to work out, but look at your smartphone during breaks, you'll find that you're actually resting longer than you are working out.
In the end, you end up spending two hours doing an exercise that could easily be completed in one hour.
This is equivalent to cutting your productivity in half and losing a precious hour.
But this is not my fault.
This is because the world is dominated by giant platform companies that are advancing day by day with artificial intelligence algorithm technology.
With a business model that relies on capturing people's attention, they are constantly waging a war to grab people's attention.
As the number of views and comments increases, people's concentration is being stolen.
The internet and artificial intelligence, concentrated on smartphones, ostensibly aim to provide people with as much information as possible to help them make the best decisions, but in reality, people spend so much time processing information that they have little time to do what they really need to do.
According to research by Harvard University psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert, nearly 50% of people think about something unrelated while they are doing something.
The problem is that you are not happy when you are thinking about something other than what you are doing now.
The world is now so distracting and full of things to see that it is stealing not only our concentration but also our happiness.
In that sense, the most efficient way to use your day and increase your happiness in life is to “focus your body and mind on the present.”
When we focus or immerse ourselves in something to the point where we lose track of time, our anxiety disappears and we feel a tremendous sense of fulfillment, satisfaction, and happiness.
Now is the time to regain your lost focus.
Altman's team at Michigan State University conducted a concentration experiment on 300 students.
We showed students working on computers pop-up windows of various lengths and measured how quickly their attention was broken.
As a result, the rate of errors due to concentration loss doubled even with a 2.8-second pop-up window.
What if you're deep in your work when a text message notification goes off? It's not easy to ignore it and continue what you were doing.
It's hard to concentrate on work just because you're curious about what the text message says, and once you check it, it's hard to regain your lost focus.
As you do this, all sorts of other temptations will suddenly rush in, and before you know it, an hour will have passed as you fall into the dopamine-stimulating algorithm.
When you're in the middle of brainstorming for a creative idea, the sound of your notification ringing just as you're about to have a good one makes you forget what you were thinking about.
If you go to the gym to work out, but look at your smartphone during breaks, you'll find that you're actually resting longer than you are working out.
In the end, you end up spending two hours doing an exercise that could easily be completed in one hour.
This is equivalent to cutting your productivity in half and losing a precious hour.
But this is not my fault.
This is because the world is dominated by giant platform companies that are advancing day by day with artificial intelligence algorithm technology.
With a business model that relies on capturing people's attention, they are constantly waging a war to grab people's attention.
As the number of views and comments increases, people's concentration is being stolen.
The internet and artificial intelligence, concentrated on smartphones, ostensibly aim to provide people with as much information as possible to help them make the best decisions, but in reality, people spend so much time processing information that they have little time to do what they really need to do.
According to research by Harvard University psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert, nearly 50% of people think about something unrelated while they are doing something.
The problem is that you are not happy when you are thinking about something other than what you are doing now.
The world is now so distracting and full of things to see that it is stealing not only our concentration but also our happiness.
In that sense, the most efficient way to use your day and increase your happiness in life is to “focus your body and mind on the present.”
When we focus or immerse ourselves in something to the point where we lose track of time, our anxiety disappears and we feel a tremendous sense of fulfillment, satisfaction, and happiness.
Now is the time to regain your lost focus.
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index
Preface_How will you spend your day today?
PART 1 Why can't we focus on this precious day?
An endless loop of searching for the answers to life
Does dopamine increase or decrease concentration?
Concentration breaks down in just 2.8 seconds.
Will searching a lot make you successful in life?
PART 2 Preparing to Focus for 24 Hours
The identity of things that steal concentration
The Reality of Spending Today's Time for the Future
Escape anxiety and activate your thinking brain.
My own magic words to boost your motivation
Just believing you're lucky can change your life.
What if you spend most of your time making wrong predictions?
PART 3 5 STEPS TO CREATING THE BEST DAY
Step 1: Divide what needs to be done into what doesn't.
Step 2: Do the important but not urgent things first.
Step 3: When you're confused about what to do, just choose whatever appeals to you.
Step 4: Calculate and decide on time as 'cost' and 'money'
Step 5: Choose the task that maximizes your concentration.
PART 4 5 Habits to Instantly Increase Your Concentration
Habit 1: The Ultimate Habit Technique: If Then Planning
Habit 2: Choose the opposite of what you've always done.
Habit 3: Don't focus on things that incur sunk costs.
Habit 4: Don't try to force yourself to be motivated.
Habit 5 I decide what I do.
PART 5: Harvard University's 80-Year-Old Answer to Life
Good interpersonal relationships improve concentration.
A precious relationship that brightens my life
Focus is doubled when you're with someone you trust.
Make me one sympathizer
Make the other person focus on you
Focus on meeting capable people.
Avoid relationships that create sunk costs.
How to Deal with Someone You Don't Want to Get Involved with but Can't Ignore
Focus on the one word, "You're doing well."
PART 6 The Conditions of a Person Who Lives Happily Today
As the time to choose increases, so does the time to focus.
PART 1 Why can't we focus on this precious day?
An endless loop of searching for the answers to life
Does dopamine increase or decrease concentration?
Concentration breaks down in just 2.8 seconds.
Will searching a lot make you successful in life?
PART 2 Preparing to Focus for 24 Hours
The identity of things that steal concentration
The Reality of Spending Today's Time for the Future
Escape anxiety and activate your thinking brain.
My own magic words to boost your motivation
Just believing you're lucky can change your life.
What if you spend most of your time making wrong predictions?
PART 3 5 STEPS TO CREATING THE BEST DAY
Step 1: Divide what needs to be done into what doesn't.
Step 2: Do the important but not urgent things first.
Step 3: When you're confused about what to do, just choose whatever appeals to you.
Step 4: Calculate and decide on time as 'cost' and 'money'
Step 5: Choose the task that maximizes your concentration.
PART 4 5 Habits to Instantly Increase Your Concentration
Habit 1: The Ultimate Habit Technique: If Then Planning
Habit 2: Choose the opposite of what you've always done.
Habit 3: Don't focus on things that incur sunk costs.
Habit 4: Don't try to force yourself to be motivated.
Habit 5 I decide what I do.
PART 5: Harvard University's 80-Year-Old Answer to Life
Good interpersonal relationships improve concentration.
A precious relationship that brightens my life
Focus is doubled when you're with someone you trust.
Make me one sympathizer
Make the other person focus on you
Focus on meeting capable people.
Avoid relationships that create sunk costs.
How to Deal with Someone You Don't Want to Get Involved with but Can't Ignore
Focus on the one word, "You're doing well."
PART 6 The Conditions of a Person Who Lives Happily Today
As the time to choose increases, so does the time to focus.
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Into the book
Even if you increase your productivity by collecting useless information, you will not live a satisfying and happy life.
Thinking you've done a lot of things well only increases your reliance on information and unnecessary tasks, and nothing creative happens in life.
--- p.45, from part 01
Tom Borkovec's team at the University of Pennsylvania published a study that found that "79 percent of things we worry about never actually happen, and 16 percent of events can be dealt with if we prepare in advance."
There is only a 5 percent chance that your worries will become reality, and most of them either never happen or, if they do, can be easily overcome with proper preparation.
--- p.62, from part 02
Responding to unimportant emails or messages, lengthy meetings that aren't really necessary, entertainment or socializing that doesn't bring any benefit, and other urgent but completely unimportant things are gradually taking up precious time.
Why do people waste their time on such things and put off what really matters?
--- p.99, from part 03
Anyone who does not act today while caring about future consequences is the first fool to waste his life fighting an unknown future.
People who spend 24 hours focusing on what they love and what they need to do and still think it's their fault because they don't get what they want are the "second fools who fight the past."
--- p.143, from part 04
The reason why happiness is affected by interpersonal relationships is because humans have a high capacity for empathy.
People feel similar emotions by accepting the emotions expressed by the person they are facing or the person close to them.
That's why you need to spend time with positive people so that your life can move in a positive direction.
--- p.166, from part 05
Life is a series of choices and decisions.
Satisfiers believe they made a good choice, while maximizers believe there could have been a better choice.
The more decisions a satisficer makes, the happier and the maximizer, the unhappier he becomes.
Thinking you've done a lot of things well only increases your reliance on information and unnecessary tasks, and nothing creative happens in life.
--- p.45, from part 01
Tom Borkovec's team at the University of Pennsylvania published a study that found that "79 percent of things we worry about never actually happen, and 16 percent of events can be dealt with if we prepare in advance."
There is only a 5 percent chance that your worries will become reality, and most of them either never happen or, if they do, can be easily overcome with proper preparation.
--- p.62, from part 02
Responding to unimportant emails or messages, lengthy meetings that aren't really necessary, entertainment or socializing that doesn't bring any benefit, and other urgent but completely unimportant things are gradually taking up precious time.
Why do people waste their time on such things and put off what really matters?
--- p.99, from part 03
Anyone who does not act today while caring about future consequences is the first fool to waste his life fighting an unknown future.
People who spend 24 hours focusing on what they love and what they need to do and still think it's their fault because they don't get what they want are the "second fools who fight the past."
--- p.143, from part 04
The reason why happiness is affected by interpersonal relationships is because humans have a high capacity for empathy.
People feel similar emotions by accepting the emotions expressed by the person they are facing or the person close to them.
That's why you need to spend time with positive people so that your life can move in a positive direction.
--- p.166, from part 05
Life is a series of choices and decisions.
Satisfiers believe they made a good choice, while maximizers believe there could have been a better choice.
The more decisions a satisficer makes, the happier and the maximizer, the unhappier he becomes.
--- p.206, from part 06
Publisher's Review
How can I say, 'I had a good day' today?
I search for over an hour to decide on a restaurant where I can have a delicious meal.
Then, I search through all the blogs and reviews to decide on the one that is the most delicious and the one I will not regret ordering among the dozens of menus.
Most people are accustomed to constantly searching and multitasking, thinking that 'the more information you gather, the better choices you can make' and 'doing three or four things at once is more efficient.'
However, research is increasingly showing that too much information reduces the quality of choices and that multitasking increases the rate of errors.
Are you satisfied with your choices after gathering a lot of information? Does multitasking actually bring results?
Through over 30 experiments conducted by psychologists and behavioral scientists around the world on concentration, happiness, motivation, judgment, decision-making, and more, we explore how to maximize your day and increase your happiness.
Just as lack of concentration is a matter of habit, increasing concentration can also be solved by improving habits.
The reason we think, 'I can't focus on what I need to do' or '24 hours pass by in the blink of an eye and I can't get anything done' is because there are so many things that interrupt our precious time.
Drawing on experiments and research from leading researchers around the world, combined with the author's insights, this book answers the question, "How can I focus today?"
Free yourself from distractions and distractions that eat up your time.
PART 1 Why can't we focus on this precious day?
The amount of information published in the New York Times in a day is equivalent to the amount of information a 17th-century Englishman would receive in a lifetime.
We constantly search for information to make the best choice, but the result is no different from choosing by flipping a coin.
This is the 'search trap'.
My days are being completely consumed by information that constantly stimulates our dopamine.
Now is the time to face the truth and cut it off.
PART 2 Preparing to Focus for 24 Hours
More than 70% of modern people feel anxious about the world.
This is also due to too much information.
This is because in the midst of constant searching, we encounter more negative information than positive information.
Also, the more information you have, the more anxious you become about what might go wrong, so you seek out more information to make the perfect choice.
Meanwhile, time passes and the beginning is infinitely postponed.
To regain focus, you need to break free from this anxiety.
PART 3 5 STEPS TO CREATING THE BEST DAY
Write down what I did today.
Then you realize that you've wasted most of your time doing things that aren't really important.
If I focus only on the urgent things right now, I won't have time for the things that are truly important to my whole life.
People who don't know what to do and spend their days feeling rushed need to start by developing the habit of converting time into money.
So you have to pour your precious time and focus into what really needs to be done.
PART 4 5 Habits to Instantly Increase Your Concentration
Concentration is also a matter of habit.
Let's think about how much of our time and concentration are consumed by things we do as daily habits.
Additionally, feeling anxious or procrastinating is also a habit.
You need to develop habits that allow you to overcome the countless temptations—the constant barrage of text messages, the endless stream of videos you can watch, the unbreakable relationships you can't break—and focus.
PART 5: Harvard University's 80-Year-Old Answer to Life
Nothing takes up as much time and energy as human relationships.
Bad relationships not only steal precious moments from your day, they also increase stress, significantly impact work efficiency, and reduce your sense of well-being.
You should distance yourself from people who further fuel negative emotions and reduce your ability to concentrate.
Several experiments have shown that working with someone you trust doubles your concentration.
I need to cut out unnecessary people as well as unnecessary things so I can focus on my life.
PART 6 The Conditions of a Person Who Lives Happily Today
Modern people spend too much time on the process of making choices.
So the faster you make your choices, the more time you have to focus.
People who spend a lot of time trying to make the perfect choice tend to regret the outcome and are less happy.
It is impossible to test all the numerous options and it is impossible to predict the future.
So, I need to have faith that whatever I choose is right.
◆ People who should read this book
- The day goes by so quickly, even though I haven't finished everything I had to do.
- I often waste time looking at my smartphone.
- There are many times when I spend my days feeling like I'm being chased.
- I feel anxious and have a hard time concentrating on what I need to do.
- I can't concentrate on something for a long time.
- I'm worried about the future, but I don't know what to do.
I search for over an hour to decide on a restaurant where I can have a delicious meal.
Then, I search through all the blogs and reviews to decide on the one that is the most delicious and the one I will not regret ordering among the dozens of menus.
Most people are accustomed to constantly searching and multitasking, thinking that 'the more information you gather, the better choices you can make' and 'doing three or four things at once is more efficient.'
However, research is increasingly showing that too much information reduces the quality of choices and that multitasking increases the rate of errors.
Are you satisfied with your choices after gathering a lot of information? Does multitasking actually bring results?
Through over 30 experiments conducted by psychologists and behavioral scientists around the world on concentration, happiness, motivation, judgment, decision-making, and more, we explore how to maximize your day and increase your happiness.
Just as lack of concentration is a matter of habit, increasing concentration can also be solved by improving habits.
The reason we think, 'I can't focus on what I need to do' or '24 hours pass by in the blink of an eye and I can't get anything done' is because there are so many things that interrupt our precious time.
Drawing on experiments and research from leading researchers around the world, combined with the author's insights, this book answers the question, "How can I focus today?"
Free yourself from distractions and distractions that eat up your time.
PART 1 Why can't we focus on this precious day?
The amount of information published in the New York Times in a day is equivalent to the amount of information a 17th-century Englishman would receive in a lifetime.
We constantly search for information to make the best choice, but the result is no different from choosing by flipping a coin.
This is the 'search trap'.
My days are being completely consumed by information that constantly stimulates our dopamine.
Now is the time to face the truth and cut it off.
PART 2 Preparing to Focus for 24 Hours
More than 70% of modern people feel anxious about the world.
This is also due to too much information.
This is because in the midst of constant searching, we encounter more negative information than positive information.
Also, the more information you have, the more anxious you become about what might go wrong, so you seek out more information to make the perfect choice.
Meanwhile, time passes and the beginning is infinitely postponed.
To regain focus, you need to break free from this anxiety.
PART 3 5 STEPS TO CREATING THE BEST DAY
Write down what I did today.
Then you realize that you've wasted most of your time doing things that aren't really important.
If I focus only on the urgent things right now, I won't have time for the things that are truly important to my whole life.
People who don't know what to do and spend their days feeling rushed need to start by developing the habit of converting time into money.
So you have to pour your precious time and focus into what really needs to be done.
PART 4 5 Habits to Instantly Increase Your Concentration
Concentration is also a matter of habit.
Let's think about how much of our time and concentration are consumed by things we do as daily habits.
Additionally, feeling anxious or procrastinating is also a habit.
You need to develop habits that allow you to overcome the countless temptations—the constant barrage of text messages, the endless stream of videos you can watch, the unbreakable relationships you can't break—and focus.
PART 5: Harvard University's 80-Year-Old Answer to Life
Nothing takes up as much time and energy as human relationships.
Bad relationships not only steal precious moments from your day, they also increase stress, significantly impact work efficiency, and reduce your sense of well-being.
You should distance yourself from people who further fuel negative emotions and reduce your ability to concentrate.
Several experiments have shown that working with someone you trust doubles your concentration.
I need to cut out unnecessary people as well as unnecessary things so I can focus on my life.
PART 6 The Conditions of a Person Who Lives Happily Today
Modern people spend too much time on the process of making choices.
So the faster you make your choices, the more time you have to focus.
People who spend a lot of time trying to make the perfect choice tend to regret the outcome and are less happy.
It is impossible to test all the numerous options and it is impossible to predict the future.
So, I need to have faith that whatever I choose is right.
◆ People who should read this book
- The day goes by so quickly, even though I haven't finished everything I had to do.
- I often waste time looking at my smartphone.
- There are many times when I spend my days feeling like I'm being chased.
- I feel anxious and have a hard time concentrating on what I need to do.
- I can't concentrate on something for a long time.
- I'm worried about the future, but I don't know what to do.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: October 15, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 212 pages | 140*205*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791199150607
- ISBN10: 1199150606
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