How to be successful and survive in this modern era? It turns out that there are two classic ways that are thousands of years old, and effective to conquer the challenges of digital life in this modern era.
First of all, it is important to understand: in order to be successful in this modern era, we must have the power of focus and a long attention span.
How to Improve Power of Focus and Long Attention Span
Attention span means that we have the ability to engage in an action in depth and long attention. Without the power of focus and a long attention span, we will easily give up in the struggle to take action. Without excellent attention span skills, we will fail to take action consistently.
Then how do we grow our focus power and attention span, so that we can help us do things diligently and consistently?
1. Train Your Focus Muscle
We can grow it by exercising to strengthen our focus muscles and attention span (attention muscle).
Like human muscle work, focus and attention span have a similar work pattern. If it is never trained then its function will automatically weaken.
Unfortunately, during this time our focus muscles and attention span are actually trained by smartphone screens to only focus on things that are super short and shallow. Automatically the strength of our focus muscles and our attention span will also get shorter and weaker.
We have to reclaim the strength of our focus muscles and our attention span. We must strive to rebuild the strength of these muscles of focus and attention span. This is because, we understand how important they are in the journey of getting rich slowly.
2. Develop Habit of Reading Books
Another exercise is to cultivate the habit of reading books or long-form articles with relatively long pages (eg 50 pages).
Dozens of scientific studies have been carried out to track the positive effects of reading on the strengthening of our cognitive and thinking power. One of the findings is: the activity of reading books or long articles (or doing a deep reading process) really helps increase our focus strength and attention span.
The habit of reading books with thick pages that are quite long, indeed slowly trains our brains to be able to listen to an idea long and deep as well.
Other positive impacts of the habit of reading books found in a series of studies are: making us more creative, having stronger problem solving, broader and deeper insight, having a more open-minded mind, appreciating diversity more, and also making the perpetrators happier.
However, one particular impact related to focus strengthening exercises is that the habit of reading long books or articles does make our focus and attention stronger. The habit of reading will allow us to build the strength to pursue a key activity in a focused manner, and with a long attention span, so that the results will also be more optimal.
From the explanation above, we understand that the habit of reading long books or articles not only increases our insight, but there is another hidden impact that is also crucial. It will make it easier for us to build focus and a long attention span.
The key to making us a more diligent and consistent person when carrying out a key activity, regardless of the type of key activity. Therefore, if we really want to reclaim our power of focus and attention span, then we must slowly re-grow this habit of reading.
3. Meditation
In addition to the habit of reading books, there is another habit that also has a very powerful impact on strengthening our focus and attention span. This classic habit is called meditation.
Dozens of scientific studies have been conducted to track the impact of habitual meditation on strengthening focus, concentration and attention span of the perpetrators.
The findings are noteworthy: that the habit of meditation actually has a very positive impact on the process of expanding the power of focus, concentration power and span of control of the perpetrators. Not only that: scientific studies have also found the fact that this meditation also has a positive impact on strengthening resilience (or mental toughness and perseverance) for the practitioners.
The essence of meditation is that we sit cross-legged in a calm state, and then focus our thoughts on only one particular point. At the beginning, the center of attention should be directed to the breath movement that we do.
Breathing is done through the nose, while the mouth is closed. Focus your mind on moving your breath through your nose slowly. When his mind turns to think about various other things, redirect the focus of the mind to the flow of breath that we are doing. Feel the breath slowly flowing through your nose, inhale slowly, and then exhale slowly through your nose. Focus your mind on this slow flow of breath.
Doing this combination of meditation will not only make our focus power more bloom, but at the same time will strengthen our spiritual experience – a process that is very crucial to achieving true success.
The habit of doing this meditation can be done for just 3 minutes for the first time. Furthermore, if it is comfortable enough, the duration can be increased to 5 or 7 minutes, or even 15 minutes.
Bottom Line
Those are two powerful ways that we can live to strengthen our focus muscles and attention span. These two methods all come from ancient classical traditions.
Miraculously, these two ancient and classic habits are actually very powerful in this modern digital era. It’s like, in this digital era that is full of distractions, we are invited to return to work on things that are fundamental and basic.
In other words, to be successful and survive in this digital era which is said to be all modern, we must actually be able to re-enact ancient traditions that have lasted thousands of years.
A beautiful paradox then occurred: with this ancient tradition we will be able to conquer the life of the modern world brilliantly.
