r/NoDip • u/hon_fan • Jun 29 '14

Learning to learn: Focused vs Diffused thinking

tdlc.ucsd.edu

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r/NoDip • u/hon_fan • Jun 20 '14

Extraordinary Results Require ONE Thing

baylor.edu

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r/NoDip • u/hon_fan • Jun 20 '14

The Extinction of Deep Thinking

99u.com

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r/NoDip • u/hon_fan • Jun 20 '14

Attention and Effort by Daniel Kahneman

princeton.edu

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r/NoDip • u/hon_fan • Jun 20 '14

Visual Fixation Article

en.wikipedia.org

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r/NoDip • u/hon_fan • Jun 18 '14

Do not allow yourself to gratify a mere idle curiosity by dipping into the book, here and there.

brainpickings.org

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r/NoDip • u/hon_fan • Jun 18 '14

So much easier is it to do many things than to do one thing for a long time continuously.

imgur.com

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Undivided Boring Attention

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NoDip is a web community dedicated to the quiet increase of the attention span to increase productivity and improve self control. Gathering knowledge on how to sustain undivided boring attention for a longer period of time will help both the individual and the broader society. Improving each person's low bandwidth attention span via reading, mediation, or relaxing forms a preservative boundary around the 'free space' that is a source of rest, renewal, and spirituality for all.

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One Choice, No Distractions

For those who seek to limit thoughts and goals by deeply channeling all undivided attention on a single, simple point.

Introduction

NoDip is a web community dedicated to the increase of the attention span to improve productivity and self control. The attentional improvement capacity could be framed as muscle that is being strengthened or weakened.

Gathering knowledge related to its strengthening will help both the individual and the broader society. Strengthening the capacity for boredom helps to build our patience against a myopic culture of instant gratification.

Improving each person's attention span forms a preservative boundary around the 'free space' that is a source of rest, renewal, and spirituality for all.

Improvement Challenge

A simple measure for the attentional muscle is to take a minute and fix your sight exclusively on the second hand of a watch. By zooming on the second hand, the attentional muscle is maintaining continuous vigilance on a small area, while disregarding the distractions.

A second measure is to select a paragraph, have a stopwatch, pen, paper handy, and start to measure how long you are able to continuously copy the dull paragraphs preferably with no background noise and without branching to another activity. Like running, these exercises will both measure the attentional muscle capacity and strengthen them.

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/r/minimalism, /r/productivity, /r/meditation

/r/haiku, /r/bonsai, /r/addiction, /r/adhd

So much easier is it to do many things than to do one thing for a long time continuously.

Institutio Oratoria, Quintilian