[Read5for5 📚] Focus: The Ultimate Guide on How to Improve Focus and Concentration

Hi friends,

This is Kei and Kazuki from Glasp 👋

We are excited to start Day 1 of the 5 Day Reading Challenge 📚✨ Here are three good articles we choose, so when you finish reading any of them or any article you want, share it on Twitter with the hashtag, "#read5for5"! Let's read good articles together and connect with like-minded people🤝

Today's Reading List 📚

(1) Mastering the Art of Letting Go by Leo Babauta (4 mins)

• Leo Babauta stresses the importance of letting go, stating it's often our internal expectations, not external factors, causing distress.

• Acceptance of things as they are and creating change from positive intentions rather than dissatisfaction is recommended.

• The practice involves acknowledging feelings, releasing unhelpful mental concepts, experiencing the moment purely, and taking necessary action from this liberated state.

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(2) 8 Thoughts on Reading Well by Dalton Mabery (2 mins)

• Emphasize focused, single-tasking over multitasking. Clearly define top priorities.

• Encourage a process-oriented mindset. Set a daily "anchor task".

• Cultivate energy management, complete crucial tasks early, and minimize distractions.

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(3) Focus: The Ultimate Guide on How to Improve Focus and Concentration by James Clear (11 mins)

• The guide emphasizes the importance of focus and concentration for productivity, highlighting that multitasking is less effective due to the mental "switching cost."

• To improve focus, Warren Buffett’s “2 List” Strategy is suggested: selecting top five goals to focus on while completely avoiding others until the top five are achieved.

• The guide recommends various methods to improve concentration, such as measuring progress, focusing on the process rather than the result, managing energy rather than time, and creating an environment conducive to focus.

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Excited to learn with you!
See you tomorrow again ;)

Best,
Glasp team

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