Question

How do I increase my concentration?

Answer 1

I don't know.... Stare at a colored dot on the wall for ten minutes, maybe? Yoga? Drink more water? Exercise? Get enough sleep? Read a lot? Play some music and just focus on hearing one instrument? Lie flat on your back and close your eyes thinking of a blue cupcake with yellow sprinkles. For five minutes think of nothing, but the cupcake and how yummy it would be. Don't think of anything else.

Answer 2

I'd like to increase my concentration on my studies, but I just tend to go off road (i.e. watch a video that is not relevant to the topic or just start daydreaming.)

I am not sure what you said ties into increasing concentration, at least I don't see how it ties in...

Answer 3

Oh, on homework! I thought you meant in general... Usually when my mind is all foggy I lay on my back with music and think of a particular cupcake. Weird as it may sound it works. So like procrastination? Well, what I do is reward myself for getting work done. I will set a timer for thirty minutes and force myself to work for the whole time w/o distractions. If I accomplish this I reward myself with a specified prize (ie: two chapters of novel, one video, etc.). If I fail to accomplish by getting distracted I have to go on without the reward. After each thirty minutes I set another until my work is done. The rewards help and this strategy seems to be pretty effective for me.

Answer 4

Not homework, general studies such as to better my English. (I am not a native born English speaker.)

I seriously don't see how sweets can drive a person to accomplish anything. I am trying to make myself study in a very distracting environment (a lot of noise, and much more). Since I can't avoid these places I'd like to learn how to cope with it, since it seems that other people are able to.

Answer 5

Sorry, I have no idea. Good luck, though! And from what I've read your English is a lot better than some people I know.

Answer 6

Thank you, sadly for what I want to do, my English does not meet the requirements.

Answer 7

try meditation...

Answer 8

Well my friend Opcode, Why not give a try to these yoga techniques...

*Focus on the task at hand: If talk­ing with some­one: ask ques­tions; if read­ing a book or a report: ask your­self how you would sum­ma­rize what you just read to a friend or to your boss.

*In gen­eral, avoid and/or elim­i­nate dis­trac­tions. Tune out every­thing else. The harder the task, the more impor­tant it is to tune out distractions.

* Do not try to double-task, this will increase your errors and divide your atten­tion. Atten­tion is lim­ited. When you try to do sev­eral things at once, you nec­es­sar­ily have to divide your atten­tion and thus con­cen­trate less on each indi­vid­ual tasks.Improve Concentration through Meditation

* Use med­i­ta­tion. Sev­eral stud­ies have shown that med­i­ta­tion can be a good brain train­ing tool that affects espe­cially atten­tional / con­cen­tra­tion skills.



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