Ladies and gentlemen, my name’s Nhat My, and welcome to my public speaking today.
So, look at
the screen and can you tell me his name? – You’re correct. He is Bruce Lee who is the founder of
Jeet Kune Do. He once said “The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus”. If you
have high levels of concentration, you'll easily succeed. So today we will talk about Concentration.
There are 2 major parts in this topic….
Now we’ll move to the 1st part. Concentration is very important for these 4 main reasons:…
How to improve your concentration?
Method 1: PLAY – LEARN – DO: It means we're gonna practice the habit while we play, study, and
work.
1. PLAY: You're entertaining in a very focused way. Keep going for a week, your concentration
will increase significantly. For example, during a 90-minute movie, you usually can't sit still and
end up texting or surfing net or abc. But from now on, when you watch the movie, try to put
your phone aside and tell yourself “I'm gonna be completely focused on this whole movie”. it
will be the best movie you've ever seen. But that's when you watch movies on a big screen like
a TV. What if you watch movies on your phone? It's simple. Go to full screen mode so you
cannot open any more tabs or apps and enjoy the movie.
2. LEARN: You’re learning in a very focused way. For instance, you want to read a book, set a
time limit, 30 minutes or sth. It's best to write on paper “I'm going to read book nonstop for the
next 30 minutes” to remind yourself. It doesn't matter if you read fast or slowly, it's important
that you just focus on the book for 30 minutes. Then we raise it to 40 or 50 minutes, or even 1
or 2 hours. If you find it too hard to read a book, you can begin with articles.
3. DO: Don't do two or three things at the same time. For example, you're a programmer.
Determine that you're going to concentrate on writing code continuously for 30 minutes. Don't
try to answer emails while you're writing the code. Just do one thing in that time.
But there are people who still feel 30 or 90 minutes are too long, because they've been distracted for
a long time. Then the next method is for them.
Method 2: Super short + 5
When you're entertaining, studying, and working, as I mentioned, also set a super short limit time,
then try to do for another 5 minutes.
Back to reading book, give yourself a 10-minute time limit and you'll focus on reading throughout that
period. I think it's a pretty short time and easy to get through. After 10 minutes, encourage yourself
"Let's do it for five more minutes”. Keep doing that again and again until you can't stand it. And the
next day you go on again and break your record yesterday. You can set 11 minutes today. After
reading for 11 minutes, we used “SUPER SHORT + 5” again. Someday you'll be surprised to say,
"Wow, I can read book for 45 minutes that I haven't done before”. If you feel that 10 minutes is too
hard, you can totally drop it down to 5 minutes.
So I've just showed you how important concentration is and two very simple ways to practice it. Once
you have this habit, almost every aspect of your career will be completely different. It's an opportunity
to change your life. Take your chance.