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hyperfocus

You’re never 
too busy to hyperfocus.


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When it comes to your most important tasks, the fewer things you pay attention to, 
the more productive you become. 
HYPERFOCUSING ON HABITS 
The most important aspect of hyperfocus is that only one productive or 
meaningful task consumes your attentional space.
This is simply nonnegotiable. 
Here’s why: the most critical tasks, projects, and commitments benefit from every bit of 
extra attention. They’re usually not habits, which by default don’t often consume your 
full attentional space. 
This is not to say it’s impossible to hyperfocus on a habit. There is no task too small 
to consume your attention
—if you tried hard enough, you could commit your complete 
attention to watching paint dry. But there are two reasons why this mental mode is best 
preserved for complex tasks, rather than habits. 
First, hyperfocus requires willpower and mental energy to activate, drawing from the 
limited supply we have to make it through the day. Because habits consume so little of 
our attentional space, there’s really no need to hyperfocus on them. 


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Second, and more interesting, while your performance on complex tasks benefits 
when you focus more completely, your habitual-task performance actually 
suffers
when 
you focus with your total attention. 
You may have experienced this the last time you noticed someone watching you 
walk, and you brought your focus to making sure you walked 
like a perfectly normal 
human being
. Chances are you immediately started moving like a full-blown mechanical 
robot, feeling as if you were flailing all over the sidewalk. To put it bluntly, your walking 
performance suffered.
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 Or maybe the last time you went bowling you found yourself 
thinking about why you were scoring more points than usual
—what exactly you were 
doing well. But then your opponents started pulling ahead and eventually won. You 
choked, and your performance suffered by your bringing your full attention to a game 
you usually play out of habit. Studies analyzing skilled typists found this same 
phenomenon: the more attention they brought to their typing, the slower they typed and 
the more mistakes they made. When doing such habitual tasks, it’s best to not focus 
completely on what you’re doing. 
Save hyperfocus for your most complex tasks
—things that will actually benefit from 
your complete attention, such as writing a report, mapping your team’s budget, or 
having a meaningful conversation with a loved one. 
A few 
marvelous things happen when you do so. First, because you’re focusing on a 
single task, you likely have some attentional space to spare
—enough that you are also 
able to keep your original intention in mind. As a result, you are less likely to be derailed 
by distractions and interruptions, because you have enough awareness to notice that 
they are about to derail you. And maybe most important, you have enough attention to 
also think deeply about the task as you work. This allows you to remember and learn 
more, get back on track when your mind wanders, and consider alternative approaches 
as you solve problems. All of this will save you an immense amount of time in 
completing the task. One of the best ways to get more done
—and done faster—is by 
preventing your
self from focusing on things that aren’t important. 

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