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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).
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).
“ ” 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
“ ” John Cleese The
creative architects had this tolerance for this discomfort we all feel when we leave things unresolved.
“ ” 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