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The sole reason I work out like I do isn’t to prepare for and win ultra races. I don’t have an athletic motive at all. It’s to prepare my mind for life itself. Life will always be the most grueling endurance sport, and when you train hard, get uncomfortable, and callous your mind, you will become a more versatile competitor, trained to find a way forward no matter what. Because there will be times when the shit life throws at you isn’t minor at all. Sometimes life hits you dead in the fucking heart.
Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
This brings us to the question of what deliberate practice actually requires. Its core components are usually identified as follows: (1) your attention is focused tightly on a specific skill you’re trying to improve or an idea you’re trying to master; (2) you receive feedback so you can correct your approach to keep your attention exactly where it’s most productive. The first component is of particular importance to our discussion, as it emphasizes that deliberate practice cannot exist alongside distraction, and that it instead requires uninterrupted concentration. As Ericsson emphasizes, “Diffused attention is almost antithetical to the focused attention required by deliberate practice” (emphasis mine).
Most people tend to think of interruptions as originating from another person or from our devices, such as through a notification. But in our studies of people in their natural work environments, we observed a strange and regular phenomenon which typically looked like this: a person would be working on a task on their computer. Then, for no apparent reason to the observer, this person suddenly stopped what they were doing and checked their email or picked up their phone. There was no discernible stimulus that caused the person to interrupt themselves—there was rather some internal trigger, perhaps a thought, a memory, or habit. These interruptions originate from within ourselves. One of the most surprising results in our research is that we find that people are nearly as likely to self-interrupt due to something internal in them as to be interrupted by something external to them.10 We may not even be aware of how often we self-interrupt.
Attention Span
Gloria Mark
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