Learn about the two brain systems that control our attention, why we get distracted every day and how to gain focus & improve attention and concentration:

Source: The Brain Science of Controlling Our Attention & Gaining Focus

In mindfulness meditation, when you notice a thought, you’ll likely be tempted to dwell on it and take it somewhere. Instead, you can just touch it lightly with your attention and go right to your breath. It doesn’t matter if you were off in space for a long time. In the moment you touch the thought, you can bounce right back.

Source: This is Your Anxious Brain on Meditation – Mindful

This talk from Tara Brach may help with this issue!

In 1748, the British politician and aristocrat John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, used a lot of his free time for playing cards. One of the problems he had was that he greatly enjoyed eating a snack, whilst still keeping one hand free for the cards.
So he came up with the idea to eat beef between slices of toast, which would allow him to finally eat and play cards at the same time. Eating his newly invented “sandwich,” the name for two slices of bread with meat in between, became one of the most popular meal inventions in the western world.
Now you are very likely to never forget the story of who invented the sandwich. Or at least, much less likely to do so than if it had been presented in bullet points or another purely information based form.
For over 27,000 years, since the first cave paintings were discovered, telling stories has been one of our most fundamental communication methods.
Here is the science around storytelling and how we can use it to make better decisions every day:
https://blog.bufferapp.com/science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains

Our brains process some content formats differently than others. Learn how your audience responds to your content to tailor your strategy.

Source: How the Brain Processes Different Types of Content by Todd Lohenry

AJ Jacobs has a post that caught my eye if only because I once had an unruly Boston terrier…

I don’t trust my brain. It’s got some good qualities, sure, but it needs constant supervision. It’s like an unruly Boston terrier — left to its own devices, it will scamper off and rummage through the garbage can, spreading rotten guacamole all over the house. In my brain’s case, this means the hours spent wallowing in unrealistic worries, time-wasting regret and revenge fantasies.

My brain needs constant tugs on its leash to redirect it. And I think I’m not alone. Most brains are like that.

So who should supervise my brain? Since I’d rather not have an NSA-implanted chip monitoring my thoughts, I have to monitor my thoughts myself. I have appointed myself my brain’s babysitter.

Get the rest of the article here: Supervising Your Brain | AJ Jacobs.

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via This Is How Your Brain Reacts When You’re Hurt And In Pain.