One of the most, if not the most effective ways for me to focus on a particular task is to open Paint (on Windows) write in one word what I'm doing right now, e.g. "complexity" for an online course on complexity I'm taking and leave it like this on the side of my screen (or on the second screen), to always be in my field of view, but not interfere with anything.
This creates a really weird effect that whenever I want to get distracted by something automatically and almost completely effortlessly tells my mind to focus on the task instead, and doesn't let me get distracted.
Can anybody check how well it generalises for them?
look into something called a kanban board. Consider segments of:
Where a task X seems hard, break it down into smaller tasks, (task of break X down to smaller tasks)
As a bonus: make an estimate of how long each task will take. After completing - compare your predicting ability and update your time-guess methods.
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