Take back control of your attention and rebuild your capacity for depth.Ĭhoose a life of focus. But just because you didn’t choose this life, doesn’t mean that you can’t choose what comes next. You didn’t choose to live this way. Our current condition was an insidious side-effect of otherwise exciting technology: computers, email, social media and smartphones.
Apps are carefully designed to capture your attention.Colleagues clutter your inbox because shooting off yet another message is the easiest way to collaborate in the moment.The forces that keep you distracted are powerful: There’s an inner voice, still quiet for now, but asking with insistence: “Am I really happy with this?” The default setting for modern life is distracted busyness. Some are funny, others outraging, most just numbing. You flail at some of these tasks before eventually giving into the escapism of a screen: Instagram, Netflix, notifications and pings. The day is exhausting and frenetic, but somehow, for all this busyness, you feel like you barely got anything important done.Īt home, you fleetingly remember your aspirations to exercise more, and read hard books, and dust off your quilting needles or the workshop in your garage, but there’s dinner to be made, laundry to be folded, groceries to buy, and new “urgent” work emails that arrived while you were commuting. Meetings, messages and interruptions dominate your time. You’ve hit the snooze three times already. What you’re missing is a set of proven instructions for how to invest your energy to cultivate a true life of focus. Yes, you too can be focused.You have the ability. Fill your time with meaningful activity that will strengthen your spirit rather than diminish it. Spend more time on things you really care about.Outside the office, screens beckon: grabbing your attention and numbing you with distraction and emotional manipulation. Become one of the few who can work deeply, and you’ll feel like you’ve been granted a superpower. Sidestep busyness and produce work that matters.The ability to focus has become valuable just as it’s become scarce.
Add your name to the list, and we’ll also send you a lesson series so you can start moving your life toward focus today. However, those on the waiting list get more frequent opportunities to join. Normally, sessions for Life of Focus are held once per year. Following a guided three-month program, we’ll show you how you can build a life of focus. One where you regularly produce your best work, enjoy deeply satisfying hobbies, activities and relationships. We’ve lost the ability to focus and it’s making us miserable.īuilding on our best-selling books, Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Ultralearning, Life of Focus invites you to imagine a different kind of life. Our personal time is splintered, robbing us of presence and peace of mind.
Our jobs are full of interruptions, distractions and busywork that keep us from building rewarding careers. Depth is something we crave, but often struggle to find.