Brian Johnson walks through five foundational steps to sharpen focus: cut sugar and refined foods to reduce inflammation, move regularly, prioritize sleep, and train your breathing. He argues these basics matter more than focus training itself.
We need to look at the fundamentals that precede focus. Eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, focus. So if I wanted to solve my focus issues, which I always want to optimize, I would come back to and start with my eating. I'd remove all sugar and all the refined foods and I'd get my gut working well, because if it's not, I'm going to have inflammation and my brain is going to be a little bit more hoppy than it would be if I didn't have that. Then the moving. Of course, I'm starting to make sure I'm training just the right amount. And then I want to make sure my sleep is really dialed in because my focus, I can feel it. I know what it feels like to be really focused. And when I'm not as focused and it's sleep is the biggest variable. So again, let's not discount that. The importance of sleep and then breath and training, our breathing pattern is really, really big as well. Both because it creates the physiological frame through which we can focus our brain, and it also builds the muscle in our brain that allows us to step into that pause, into the gap and make a decision more proactively rather than reactively. Keep on working on those things then focusing.
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