Micro Class: How to Develop Jedi-Like Concentration

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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another micro class.

This one's on Jedi concentration. It's inspired by mind hacking by Sir John Hargrave, who doesn't want to have Jedi concentration. This is the heart of mind hacking, obviously. Being able to put our minds where we want, when we want, for how long we want. John tells us there are two primary things we need to do. First, we need to reclaim our attention, and then we need to retrain our attention again. This isn't just John sharing a Jedi mind trick. This is what all leading psychologists tell us, is that the heart of optimal living attention. In our world, we are being completely paper cutted with distractions, which is the first thing we have to do. We have to reduce and eliminate distractions. We need to reclaim our attention from everything that's sucking it away. All of your push notifications, the emails, this, whatever the distractions are in your life. John says spend an hour identifying these and eliminating them. First hour just gets the ball rolling. Then on a daily basis, get 1% better. Just find little iterative ways to get a little less distracted. Reclaim your attention. That's the first step in building your Jedi concentration. The second one is you need to retrain your attention.

How do you do that?

You do that via what he calls mind games. You need to build your concentration via consistent practice of mind games. There's a word for mind games and building your concentration. It is meditation. John doesn't use the word meditation. He says, look, approach it like a game. Imagine that you're playing alien blasters in your head.

Sit down for 20 minutes or 5 or 10 or 15, if that's all.

You want to do right now, right, you sit down, you get your posture.

You start taking your deep breath, and you focus on your breath.

He says the area right between your nostrils. Focus right there on the breath coming in. And then when a thought comes in, blast it with your attention.

Boom.

You see the thought, you dissolve it with your attention. That's a mind game. If that's what it's going to take to get you to practice building your concentration muscles, then we need to do it. This is, he says, the core of our mental fundamentals. We eat, we move, we sleep. We need to concentrate, reclaim your attention, retrain your attention and get Jedi concentration.

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