![]() Success will depend on each person, as attention spans are greatly varied. Bring a time-keeping device and think about that topic for 10 minutes, uninterrupted. If you’re not alert, you will move on to something else.Ī great thinking exercise to try: find a peaceful area with no distractions and choose an important topic that you’d like to think about. If you don’t make a decision, the default decision is to lose your focus. This is what makes thinking difficult – you must consciously decide at each 10 second interval whether or not to continue thinking about the topic. If you decide to think about a single topic, you will need to refocus continually to do it successfully. I have heard it said that the typical human will lose focus every 10 seconds. It’s not just because the infinite number of possible thoughts and ideas can overload your processor (i.e. And great lives are made by taking valuable action.īut the number one reason that people don’t think hard is because it is hard. Can you guess why?ĭeep thinking is how we increase our number of valuable and useful thoughts. Your quantity of valuable thoughts has a direct effect on your quantity of valuable actions. We all think, but not all of us think deeply, which is thinking beyond what your mind defaults to. This is a problem. Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. Maybe this post will read differently now that you know what deep thinking did for me. My books have changed thousands of readers’ lives! If not for this blog and this post, I don’t know what I’d be doing, but it wouldn’t be as satisfying as my career now. It marked the beginning of a journey of deep thinking about what I truly wanted in life, which ultimately brought me complete financial and location freedom and a dream career as an author. In late 2013, I wrote and published my first book, Mini Habits, which is now in 17 languages! My other books, How to Be an Imperfectionist and Mini Habits for Weight Loss are constant bestsellers. ![]() 2019 UPDATE: This was the first post ever I ever wrote for this blog (all the way back in March 2011).
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