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Name: Lifescale
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Author: Brian Solis

Brian Solis

How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life

4.6 (104 Bewertungen)

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What’s in it for me? Reclaim your attention and redefine your purpose.

How often do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through social media instead of working on a project that’s due? Or itching to check your phone in the middle of a conversation? If the answer is “too often,” then don’t worry. You’re not alone.

Thanks to technology and social media, our attention spans have drastically shortened. A decade ago, the average employee shifted focus every three minutes. Today, they do so after just 45 seconds. Not only that, workers reportedly check their email over 70 times a day and switch between tasks on their computers about 560 times!

Succumbing to distractions isn’t just bad for productivity; it also impacts your creativity, mental health, and overall happiness. There’s good news, though. You can reclaim control of your mind with “lifescaling” – a method that’ll help you build resilience against distractions, foster creativity, and orient your life in a happier, more meaningful direction.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how to hack your attention span;
when to ask “Why?” as opposed to “What?”; and
how to really harness the power of positive thinking.

Technology distracts us by design.

You've probably heard it said that the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. Well, it’s not hard to see that many of us have a problem with distraction. And the obvious culprits are technology and social media.

Enter lifescaling, the author’s method for regaining not just your focus but your creativity and purpose, too. Before you can work on your focus, however, you have to understand that this state of distraction is no accident.

The key message here is: Technology distracts us by design.

Consider the many devices we have at our disposal – and all the apps and social media platforms available through them. The companies behind these have to compete for our attention, and they do this through persuasive design. This is a method of designing products so that they play on our weaknesses and influence our behavior.

Social media notifications, for example, are persuasive design at work. As humans, we’re wired for social reciprocity, meaning we expect others to respond in kind to our positive actions. Think of how people receive compliments and feel the need to return them. Notifications about “likes” on our social media posts or messages play on that need for reciprocity. When we see them, we’re driven to keep interacting and checking how many likes or messages we’ve received.

With tactics like this, it’s no wonder we can only go a few minutes at a time before reaching for our phones. But there’s another side to the story. We also welcome the distractions that technology presents us with. When we’re facing difficult tasks, work we don’t enjoy, or issues like anxiety and loneliness, falling into a digital rabbit hole offers a temporary escape.

But whether we’re tricked into distraction or turn to it willingly, there are many negative consequences.

The main one? We’re constantly switching between our work and the digital world of apps and social media. But our brains have a limited capacity for concentration and productivity. So when we switch tasks or try to do multiple things at once, we’re less likely to do anything well. This leads to wasted time and poor-quality work. It also negatively affects our attention spans and memory, increases stress levels, and makes it harder for us to think creatively.

Thankfully, it’s possible to combat distraction and its impact on our minds. In the following blinks, we’ll learn how.

Attention hacking can boost your productivity immediately.

Imagine you’re driving to a meeting when your car breaks down. Luckily, another driver stops to help. He fiddles around in the engine, and bingo – your car is running again! You’ll still need to see a mechanic eventually, but the quick fix means you’ll at least get to your meeting.

The lesson here is that you can’t always solve a problem right away, but sometimes short-term solutions will do the trick. And when the problem is a lack of focus and productivity, your short-term solutions are called attention hacks.

Fostering creativity boosts your health, happiness, and productivity.

For many people, the word “creativity” brings to mind artistic masterpieces, great music, and inspiring designs. Works like these are all products of Creativity with a Big C – thinking that produces game-changing, innovative ideas.

But there’s another type of creativity, one that encourages critical thinking, learning, and everyday problem-solving. This is creativity with a lowercase c, and developing it is good for more than just productivity.

Searching for meaning makes us truly happy.

Here’s a question: What is happiness?

For many people, happiness means experiencing positive feelings such as love, joy, and pride more often than negative ones. Because of this idea, people tend to chase moments of positive emotion. But the happiness derived from such moments is usually fleeting.

Practicing mindfulness helps direct our attention to the present.

Picture this: a coworker comes up to you and excitedly shares news of her big promotion. But rather than simply being happy for her, you can’t help but think about yourself. You wonder why you haven’t been promoted – and thoughts like this keep multiplying and distracting you from your coworker’s good news.

There’s actually a name for the stream of thoughts that constantly run through your mind: mental chatter. While some of these thoughts can be helpful, for the most part they’re unproductive and pull you away from the present. They also drain your brain’s energy, leaving you with less fuel for the tasks in front of you. As if that’s not bad enough, getting caught up in mental chatter leads to overanalyzing and an increased risk of stress, anxiety, and depression.

To define success for ourselves, we need to identify our purpose.

Let’s step back in time for a moment. Growing up, where did your understanding of success come from?

For the author, it came from authority figures such as parents and teachers. They taught him that success was all about attaining things like a college education or material possessions. But later on, he realized that this definition of success was based on what others thought of him. He was constantly trying to attain more, and the pressure – and possessions – began to weigh on him.

A positive mindset will get you to your goals.

In the previous blink, you learned how to define success for yourself by identifying your purpose. But once you’ve determined what you want from life, how do you ensure that you get it?

The answer is more obvious than you may think: you can manifest the things you want in life through positive thinking. In a nutshell, positive thinking means remaining optimistic, even in the face of setbacks. Having such a mindset fuels you as you chase your purpose, making you more productive and reducing the chances of burnout.

To do deep work, you need to create the right conditions for it.

Now that you’re armed with an optimistic outlook, the power of mindfulness, and a renewed sense of purpose, you’re ready for the final step of lifescaling – achieving focus and productivity.

When you can easily and intensely focus on meaningful projects without succumbing to distractions, you’re doing what’s called deep work. This means mastering challenging information and producing high-quality work in shorter periods of time. This sounds like a superpower, sure, but it’s actually a skill that anyone can learn if they dedicate time and space to it.

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Lifescale (2019) addresses the modern struggle to stay focused in a world designed to distract you. It offers practical solutions for increasing your productivity while contending with a shortened attention span. It also outlines ways of identifying meaning, values, and goals that will propel you forward.

Wer Lifescale lesen sollte

Technophiles looking to better control their use of social media and technology
Employees striving for improved focus and productivity
Ambitious professionals interested in redefining their goals and purpose

Über den Autor

Brian Solis is a world-renowned digital analyst and speaker. He’s spent close to 30 years studying technology’s impact on both society and business and has helped top start-ups and brands develop digital transformation and innovation strategies. Solis is the author of eight best sellers, including What’s the Future of Business and The End of Business as Usual.

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