How do I focus and stop getting distracted?
Distraction is someone else's profit center. Every notification is designed to capture your attention. Focus is the decision to stop giving it away for free.
Focus isn't a productivity hack. It's an economic decision. Your attention has value. Every hour you give to someone else's feed is an hour you're not investing in your own work.
"Opportunity expands as focus narrows." This feels counterintuitive. More options should mean more opportunity, right? No. More options mean more dilution. The person who does one thing exceptionally creates more opportunity than the person who does ten things adequately.
Practical: pick one project. Work on it every day. Say no to everything that doesn't serve it. For a defined period — 30 days, 90 days, a year. See what happens when you compound effort instead of scattering it.
"Value your time so highly you feel pain when you waste it." When you internalize this, the phone stays in the drawer. The notifications get turned off. The focus becomes automatic because the alternative is physically uncomfortable.
“Opportunity expands as focus narrows.”
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