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Comment by 878654Tom | Hacker News Reader

Be more focussed. At the moment I can't even read longreads anymore and I am distracted quite a lot.

I noticed a Reddit thread talking about how our smartphones became the ultimate dopamine delivery system with making sure that you would look every X time at your phone and creating an addiction by making sure the phone would become your primary dopamine source and while they gave zero scientific research about this I must say... in my particular situation it felt very real and could attribute to my lack of focus.

So I now started to put the phone away at an inconvenient location at 21:00 and start to read, make a puzzle,... again.

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Same here, actually 2022 was my "year of focus" but that didn't work out really well until the final months so I'm trying again.

I think learning how to focus and work more hours without distractions is far more important than any tech thing I could possibly learn, and it works for University as well.

I noticed that after several days studying more or less heavily for college, suddenly youtube or twitter don't look that interesting anymore, but you have to keep being consistent, else you will relapse.

If your phone has "focus" modes I would highly suggest auto-disabling notifications after a certain hour, when driving, when working, etc. My phone even changes the home screen for me. At night I only have the clock and notes app on it, for example. I personally have ADHD and this phone feature is a lifesaver.

Disabling all notifications during the day was a fantastic life improvement for me. I had a period of time in my job where I struggled to get into the projects and had zero passion for what we are doing so it was easy to get distracted. Throwing myself into my work for bursts at a time with zero distractions actually brought the passion back as I felt more invested.

I have a period of time in the morning when I'm usually catching up on emails, drinking my coffee, browsing HN, etc and a period after dinner but before bed where my notifications are on. Any other time, call me twice and I'll answer.

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