Focus by Training Yourself to Crave Less Dopamine
The dude who made the Marble Machine X slowly weaned himself off sources of dopamine. He was good to Embrace Boredom. He turned off audio input. He turned off his phone. He called it a Dopamine Detox and credits it with a 10x increase in productivity.
To increase focus:
Do these things.
- Stop listening to podcasts
- Close out of Skype
- Close out of Outlook (with alarms set for meetings elsewhere)
- Close all browsers
- Close all applications other than what you’re doing