Philosophy Spirituality

True Meaning Of “No Distractions”

There’s a spectrum between you:

-being focused on the thing which must be done

-being focused on everything else but the thing

We explore the whole spectrum: sometimes getting “in the zone”, sometimes procrastinating entirely, sometimes everything in between, multi-tasking, etc.

 

You can do whatever the fuck you want

You don’t even have to do the “right thing”

Or you can half-do it, slowly do it, do a little bit of this, a little bit of that,

Just don’t delude yourself that you are focused

Don’t delude yourself that you are NOT distracted

 

Because there’s an extremely simple way of proving how focused you are

You just have to close your eyes

Close your eyes

Don’t move

And NOW focus

This is what it feels like to be focused

 

This is what it feels like to be focused

There’s no redundant stimuli

There is no chaotic pointless movement

There is only darkness, only silence, only stillness — and the problem at hand

This is what it feels like to be focused

 

And now that you know — there is no turning back

You don’t have to always be so focused

But you can’t delude yourself that you are focused — NOT when you’re NOT

 

And if you have something important to do,

If you gave your word,

If you understand that it will require you to focus,

Now you know what it MEANS to focus

Now you know what it means to NOT distract yourself

 

It’s not so easy

The good news is — it’s FAR more effective

But the best news is — you no longer delude yourself

 

Over our lifetimes we become experts at distracting ourselves and deluding

It reaches a point where some things we are just utterly unable to do

We don’t even realize we’re not doing those things — we think we’re doing them — but during the thing — we are giving it 0% of our attention

That is the true blight of distraction

We can become so good at it that our entire life passes us by

 

Therefore close your fucking eyes, shut your fucking mouth, and focus

Do less — but with no distractions

Speak less — but without nonsense

Think less — but clearly

Know less — but truly

Close your eyes, be calm, simple, focused

Less is so much more

(because more means more nonsense and distraction — and LESS of the true substance)

Please be simple