Focus is essential to start and do something. If focus isn’t there, it’s like looking at a faraway land and wondering at them, just as it is (according to my visual representation)
Sometimes, being unfocused is similar to the concept of pipelining(in Computer Architecture), where multiple instructions are executed simultaneously. In this subject, it’s like having multiple foods on the plate and continuously jumping over to the other by not completing it entirely; hence, this can be said as distraction.
Most of us in this generation are suffering from this(not what you think) disease of distraction. The thing I mentioned above can work the same way internally. To focus on something, the thought should be like a laser beam, pointing out directly the essential one (In grand scale, applying such a state in every aspect is similar to the concept of ‘SthatithaPragya’).
When the curiosity is flooded or the interest etches to do a work, such state of mind becomes the default mode. But in most cases, it doesn’t. What happens is, when you’re about to concentrate on a work, there is this thought we circulate, which is actually like a paired electron(consists of two thoughts) in it.
One side is the thought “Concentrate on work” which seems to be the primary thought, but eventually the other side “Don’t get distracted by other thoughts” climbs the ladder most of the time. While we become aware of ourselves not to get distracted by other thoughts, we start to entertain every thought that passes by, and thus the one who don’t wanna get distracted is distracted by itself.
When we are entertaining them (i.e.) it might be pleasant and unpleasant too, and so that is the point where we drift our focus to there (that specific thought).
“There’s something to learn from others,” a wise man said.
Say thanks to your crush for teaching you the art of ignorance, which is nothing but the mechanism that your crush ignores you. Apply that same coping mechanism in the thought too. When you’re about to entertain a thought while focusing, just ignore the other thought except to the one you need to focus on. (This is one of the techniques that’s used in meditation to be free from distraction)
Yet this method takes a while to adapt!
That’s why, I tried a coping mechanism and eventually named it as
“DOUBLE POINTEDNESS”
Instead of becoming free from every distraction, let’s reduce the percentage of it. Instead of focusing on one thing, focus on two things at the same time (parallel-ly connected to each other), which eliminates the distraction in large numbers.
A good example of this is something we follow in our daily routine, like a hobby or entertainment. Music + Gym, Music + Study such combinations of works with the likely and less likely one done simultaneously, results in the elimination of maximum distractions, and boosts productivity on a larger scale.
There’s the practically proven theory that when you iterate something over a certain period, at some point it breaks and you become the best at it. Likewise, practicing or doing this continuously would lead to making SINGLE POINTEDNESS your default. Single Pointedness?? Dropping in the next. :)
[This is based on my introspection by observing the circulation of thoughts, interests and distraction from a third PoV. Might differ in the future, thus the consciousness and knowledge is expanding by observing thyself. Will update the clear and precise version of this, whenever I’m able to pull off, that mechanism inside, to the paper, very well and better]