How can focus help our business, our teams, ourselves? This presentation disassembles the difficulty we have in achieving various kinds of focus (vision, goal, users, pragmatism, attention, calm) and gives practical tips on how to approach and improve each of them.
This talk was originally prepared for ThemeConf (themeconf.com) and From the Front (2015.fromthefront.it).
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R. Sawaki, S.J. Luck
An attend-to-me signal can be overridden
by an active suppression process to prevent
the actual capture of attention.
R. Sawaki & S. J. Luck (2010) Capture versus suppression of attention by salient singletons
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John Cleese
The creative architects had this tolerance
for this discomfort we all feel
when we leave things unresolved.
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Baird, Smallwood, Mrazek, Kam, Franklin, Schooler
Engaging in simple external tasks that allow
the mind to wander may facilitate creative
problem solving.
Baird, Smallwood, Mrazek, Kam, Franklin, Schooler (2011) Inspired by Distraction Mind Wandering Facilitates Creative Incubation