{"id":9494,"date":"2020-11-01T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=9494"},"modified":"2020-10-27T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T22:59:07","slug":"how-to-create-the-perfect-conditions-for-deep-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/how-to-create-the-perfect-conditions-for-deep-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create the Perfect Conditions for Deep Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe ability to stay focused will be the superpower of the 21st century\u201d<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0-Cal Newport, author of the book Deep Work.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">For many of us, staying focused means limiting our distractions, many of which come courtesy of our smartphones.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cNumerous studies have shown that when subjects are given complex puzzles to solve, and are then interrupted, their performance and capacity for complicated problem solving drops not just at the moment they\u2019re distracted, but for some time afterward, too.\u201d<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> \u00a0Our phones often create the distractions that pull us away from being productive; the less time we spend doing deep work or thinking deeply, the more difficult this skill becomes. This article gives an overview of the concepts and rules for deep work.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe ability to stay focused will be the superpower of the 21st century\u201d\u00a0-Cal Newport, author of the book Deep Work.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For many of us, staying focused means limiting our distractions, many of which come courtesy of our smartphones.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cNumerous studies have shown that when subjects are given complex puzzles to solve, and are then interrupted, their performance and capacity for complicated problem solving drops not just at the moment they\u2019re distracted, but for some time afterward, too.\u201d \u00a0Our phones often create the distractions that pull us away from being productive; the less time we spend doing deep work or thinking deeply, the more difficult this skill becomes. This article gives an overview of the concepts and rules for deep work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/2uc5db1v032h5jwcm2gal07i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/How-to-Create-the-Perfect-Conditions-for-Deep-Focus-1024x682.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[175,145,422],"class_list":{"0":"post-9494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-wellness","9":"tag-employee_engagement","10":"tag-productivity","11":"tag-work_from_home"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9495,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions\/9495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}