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Focus? Why Do I Need
    More Stinkin’ Focus?



Mike Gehard       @mikegehard
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LSE Library
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Focus and Meditation
Results of multitasking?
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Context Switching
Context Switching
Unload current context
Context Switching
Unload current context
Load new context
Context Switching
Unload current context
Load new context
Perform action on new context
Context Switching
Unload current context
Load new context
Perform action on new context
Unload current context
Context Switching
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Unload current context
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Context Switching
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Unload current context
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Context Switching
Unload current context
Load new context
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Unload current context
Load old context
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This context switching can cost you 20-40% of your
productivity
How do we counteract the
“fuzziness” of multitasking?
Focus and Meditation
Practice focus
Practice focus
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Focus and Meditation
Recap
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Find a place where you can be undisturbed
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Find a place where you can be undisturbed
Sit up straight where ever comfortable
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Find a place where you can be undisturbed
Sit up straight where ever comfortable
Start a timer
Recap
Find a place where you can be undisturbed
Sit up straight where ever comfortable
Start a timer
Close your eyes
Recap
Find a place where you can be undisturbed
Sit up straight where ever comfortable
Start a timer
Close your eyes
Take a 3-4 deep breaths through nose
Recap
Find a place where you can be undisturbed
Sit up straight where ever comfortable
Start a timer
Close your eyes
Take a 3-4 deep breaths through nose
Count inhales/exhales, 1..2..3 up to 10
Recap
Find a place where you can be undisturbed
Sit up straight where ever comfortable
Start a timer
Close your eyes
Take a 3-4 deep breaths through nose
Count inhales/exhales, 1..2..3 up to 10
When you get to 10 start over
Recap
Find a place where you can be undisturbed
Sit up straight where ever comfortable
Start a timer
Close your eyes
Take a 3-4 deep breaths through nose
Count inhales/exhales, 1..2..3 up to 10
When you get to 10 start over
If you get distracted, start over at 1
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R-Brain vs L-Brain
Rich Brain
Rich Brain
creativity
Rich Brain
    creativity
synthesis of ideas
Rich Brain
    creativity
synthesis of ideas
figuring things out
Linear Brain
Linear Brain
  analysis
Linear Brain
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taking things apart
Linear Brain
       analysis
 taking things apart
making things happen
Practice focus
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 Meditation
Meditation allows the rich brain
  to get some “playing time”
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10 minutes of meditation
       3x week
Focus and Meditation
How has meditation helped your
        development?
How has meditation helped your
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Focus and Meditation

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  2. Your mileage may vary\n\nThink of this as a requirements gathering exercise.\n
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  4. No that is not me\n\n
  5. That is me...Blue river outside of Silverthorne in Summit County Colorado\n
  6. Yoga practitioner and teacher.\n
  7. Software developer\n
  8. All of these things benefit from increased levels of focus\nAlso called in ‘in the zone’ \nHow many people think they are focused?\nHow many people could be more focused? \nWhy is focus important?\n\n
  9. Our world has become increasingly about “multitasking” and increased sensory input.\n\n\n
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  11. iphone/smart phones\n
  12. Many studies showing that we are getting “dumber” because of the time/energy we are “wasting” on multitasking.\n\n\n
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  14. Brain is like a computer, it can only perform one action at a time.\nIt creates the illusion of doing many things at once (aka multitasking) via context switching.\n\n
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  23. One way I choose to practice focus is meditation.\nThere are many others.\nHow many people have meditated?\n
  24. One way I choose to practice focus is meditation.\nThere are many others.\nHow many people have meditated?\n
  25. One way I choose to practice focus is meditation.\nThere are many others.\nHow many people have meditated?\n
  26. You can practice meditation anywhere\nLike in a room full of Rubyists\nLet’s try it now... 5-10 minute meditation\nEdge of seat\nSit up straight, hands in lap\nEyes closed\nNotice that you are breathing in and out through the nose\nBegin to count to 10. If you ever lose count, just start back at one.\nWhen you get to 10, start over again.\nIf you get distracted, simply notice that you got distracted and start counting again at 1.\n\n\n
  27. Congrats you are all now experienced meditators...my job is done here. ;-)\n
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  38. How do you get better...you do it...just do it.\n\nJust ease into it.\n\nTell story about reading cookbook and getting full from it...\n\n\n
  39. We use our brains to solve problems when developing.\n
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  45. many of us are great at l-brain stuff but find the r-brain stuff a little more challenging\n
  46. many of us are great at l-brain stuff but find the r-brain stuff a little more challenging\n
  47. many of us are great at l-brain stuff but find the r-brain stuff a little more challenging\n
  48. many of us are great at l-brain stuff but find the r-brain stuff a little more challenging\n
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  50. Remember that the brain can only do one thing at a time and since we are good at l-brain stuff it tends to take over.\n\nMeditation gives the dominant l-brain something to do while the r-brain gets a chance to do it’s thing.\n\n
  51. You get a glimpse of this when you get that ah ha moment in the shower.\n
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