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Need to Focus Better? A Harvard Professor With ADHD Explains How He Does It - Inc.com (No paywall) He got there, he says, by examining his own ability to focus and think, trying different techniques to see what would help, a process he shares in his new book, LIT, which stands for "life ignition tools." He tells Inc.: "It really was me figuring out that there are all these incredible energies and tools I could tap into to overcome the challenges that I was facing."
Karp says we should all recognize what we're up against. For one thing, the human brain evolved to be distractable. "Our brains are wired to wander, to scan the horizon for potential threats," he says. And then there's the effect of living in our modern, digital world, which is a mass of distractions. Marketing, social media, media, and other elements of modern life are actually designed to play on our distractibility, he says. "This biologically-based mechanism for survival is now being hijacked," he says. "It's not our fault."
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