Fix your attention span with science-based tools

The comprehensive guide to fixing your focus and improving your attention span! I didn't break this down into distinct 'tips' because I wanted to have a more nuanced conversation of what you can try, so you can formulate tools that best fit your situation. COMMENTS: I try to read all comments! But keep in mind, I want to maintain a healthy separation from social media, so I don't keep Youtube on my phone and I only look at it a few times a week. If I haven't responded to your comment yet, that's why:) SOURCES Books: Deep Work by Cal Newport Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey (not explicitly cited, but was a part of the research process On Writing by Stephen King Academic sources: Brief, daily meditation enhances attention, memory, mood, and emotional regulation in non-experienced meditators — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016643281830322X?via%3Dihub Efficacy of binaural auditory beats in cognition, anxiety, and pain perception: a meta-analysis — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30073406/ The role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquistition of Expert Performance — https://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/pdf/DeliberatePractice(PsychologicalReview).pdf Acute Stress Improves Concentration Performance — https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/1618-3169/a000481?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed Rituals decrease the neural response to performance failure — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5452956/#:~:text=The%20thinking%20is%20that%20rituals,Gould%20%26%20Jackson%2C%201979 40-Hz Binaural beats enhance training to mitigate the attentional blink —https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63980-y In case you're wondering how I accessed academic sources without being an academic, I used my local library!