It's hard to get into the state of things.

It's hard to get into the state of things.

It's hard to get into the state of things. Many people around me have this problem, that is, they have made their own plans, but they can't concentrate from the beginning. It is difficult to get into the state of doing things, and there are many reasons for being overwhelmed and distracted. It's hard to get into the state by sharing the following things.

It is difficult to enter the state of 1. Why can't you enter the state?

Many people around us have this trouble: they have made ambitious plans, but when they start working or studying, they can't concentrate and are always distracted by one thing or another.

There are many reasons for being distracted, but if you really want to do something and make a detailed plan, the most likely reason is that what you want to do is too difficult for you.

There is a concept in psychology called flow, which refers to the state in which a person is fully engaged in one thing. Flow experience can make people feel full and excited. Concentrate on playing games, writing papers, and hanging around museums will all have a flow experience. When doing these things, my heart is surging. It seems that all foreign things have been filtered and ignored. And if we can achieve a state of flow at work or study, then the plan can be easily completed.

Mihaly csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist, believes that the premise of achieving flow state is that what you do is within your ability and challenging.

The horizontal axis of this picture is a person's personal ability, and the vertical axis represents his task difficulty. Then if a person's own ability is extraordinary and he uses his ability to complete a challenging task, then he can naturally concentrate and experience the flow.

Then let's go back and see why it's so hard to get into the state. If your own state and ability are not enough to complete difficult tasks, then it is easy to have anxiety, which is the red area in this picture. When people are anxious, they will be distracted.

In addition, we were taught from an early age to complete difficult tasks before completing simple tasks. As everyone knows, this is why it is difficult for many people to enter the state of work or study.

It is good to finish the difficult work first, but that only applies to the situation that the difficulty of the work is not beyond your ability.

If you choose to finish something beyond your personal ability first, you will only be anxious and distracted. On the contrary, if we can finish some simple and important tasks first, we will feel relaxed or controllable (as shown in the picture), and we can gradually enter the state in the process. In this way, when you go to complete a difficult task, you will not be so anxious.

In short, we should learn to manage our own time and arrangement in order to complete the task. In this process, please remember one thing: there are some challenges within your capabilities.

It's hard to get into the state of things. Once you get into the state of doing things, it's easy to get addicted to it and can't extricate yourself. How to solve it?

Performance:

1, as long as you start reading a book, you must finish it. You will finish it on weekends, and you will see it in the early hours of the working day. You don't want to do anything important but not urgent!

2, play games, start playing in the dark, playing games is easy to mental fatigue! Until I forced myself to uninstall, I basically don't play now. But there is a faint desire to get heavier. ...

3. When eating snacks, such as buying candy or loving food, eat it all at once and never leave it for the next day. It feels natural, but in order to maintain the image, I seldom buy snacks at ordinary times, and I am very restrained ... _

Others: there is no such thing as work and study at all, and indulging in work is a joke. But it is still a negligible advantage in continuous learning every day!

Reflection: In fact, I am very open-minded, that is, I lack binding force on myself and my daily planning. Either I have no plans for this day, or other things I want to do are more challenging. Lazy thinking keeps me in a comfortable thinking circle and convinces my uneasy heart with addiction as an excuse. ...

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Method 1: Set the alarm clock and be sure to stop it then.

Method 2: pomodoro technique is recommended. With this kind of software, I think it is more applicable. I can specify your concentration time. It will remind you then, and then you will know that you have to rest.

This software can shield everything on your mobile phone when you are focused, so that you can focus happily.

Actually, I don't think there is anything wrong with being too focused. The mistake is that I don't know enough is enough. I think focusing on forgetting your body and mind is the more extreme focus.

So when you want to focus, you should be happy to focus, and then when the time comes, you will know it's time to stop.

If you know that you are "dying" and still have to concentrate, then you are probably used to it.

Then change your habits. If you can't control it, I'll run ten laps or let you think about the punishment you were afraid of when I found myself too focused today and didn't keep the prescribed time.

It's hard to get into the state of doing things. How to adjust to enter the flow state, so as to improve the efficiency of doing things?

Psychologist Mihaly once mentioned in Stream of Life that it is difficult for a person to do something he doesn't like, unless the motivation is very strong, it is difficult to do it. And because of the inner struggle, it is more difficult to concentrate.

On the contrary, if you are keen on this matter, even if it is difficult, you can quickly get into the state and get involved.

This is why when we play games or watch TV series, we can devote ourselves wholeheartedly, so that people around us will not be disturbed, or even feel the existence of time, and we can reach the realm of forgetting to eat and sleep.

Once I study or work, I feel that time passes slowly, and I feel very tired in less than half an hour, and I am always easily distracted. I want to pick up my cell phone or do something to rest myself for a while.

This is the state of most people, but for some people, in the process of study or work, they can also do one thing with high concentration like we play games and watch movies.

One of my favorite authors, she is still buried in her work. She started classes two days before the wedding and wrote very hard, but she still feels that she is not hard enough.

Because she feels that she doesn't work hard, just like everyone likes watching movies and playing games, she likes studying or working.

And doing it itself has brought her happiness.

Another example is my colleague. When he is busy, he can sit on a stool as soon as he goes to work, so that he can devote himself to his work, forget to drink water all day, or even go to the toilet all afternoon ... (no exaggeration)

In this way, no matter how difficult or complicated things are, you can devote yourself wholeheartedly. In this process, you will feel energetic and very satisfied, which is called "flow" in psychology.

Mihaly once listed eight characteristics of flow state:

This is something we can accomplish.

Concentrate on doing it.

Have a clear goal

immediate feedback

Being able to go deep into action without being far-fetched, the depression in daily life disappears.

Free to control your behavior.

Enter the state of "forgetting me"

The feeling of time will change.

In fact, in the process of life or work, we have more or less entered a state of flow.

You can recall that when you were doing something, you had a feeling that you were so absorbed that you forgot the time, so there was a high probability that you were very interested in it.

Let's take a look at this photo. When the skill level matches the challenge level of things, it is easier to reach the flow state.

Of course, there are many things in reality that we don't want to do, but we have to do. At this time, how should we adjust ourselves to enter a state of flow, so as to improve the efficiency of doing things?

1. I have a certain understanding of this matter and believe that I can do it well.

You must have your own knowledge about what you want to do or are doing.

In other words, whether you are good at it or not, you have a bottom in your heart.

But once you decide to do it, you must believe that you can do it.

I don't know if you have such an experience. When you are going to finish something, once you think it is too difficult to do it, you really can't do it.

On the contrary, when you believe you can, psychological hints will make you more focused on what you want to do, rather than falling into anxiety and procrastination.

Step 2 set goals

A sense of purpose is very important if you want to concentrate on one thing.

Because when you have a sense of purpose, you will devote yourself to this matter.

What I fear most is that I am busy every day, only busy and wasting time.

3. Disassemble the target and start doing it.

When the goal is greater than the ability, you will feel anxious, if the goal is too small, you will feel bored.

The best way is to break down the big goal into small goals and then do it.

For example, the KPI that the leader set for you for one month seems difficult to achieve.

At this time, if you just think about how to achieve this KPI every day, the high probability will only make you more and more anxious and unable to achieve it.

And if the KPI of this month is implemented in detail, what work needs to be completed every week, and then the daily workload, it will often become much easier at this time.

Even simple grooming can make your work clearer.

However, it should be noted that the small target of refinement is dynamic and adjusted according to the current actual situation.

5. Reduce external interference

For example, when I write an article, I usually turn off the WeChat interface on my computer to ensure that I can't reply to any information during writing an article. (Because it is difficult for me to see other people's information without replying, I can only choose to close the WeChat interface to reduce external interference. )

This has many advantages, on the one hand, it can make me enter the writing state more quickly, on the other hand, it can avoid needing more time to find my previous state because of the distraction of replying information, and it can make me enter the writing process more quickly.

Similarly, if you want to concentrate on one thing, you should be cruel and turn off all external factors that will interfere with you.

In addition, the external interference here also includes thoughts. When it is difficult for you to calm down, or you are always distracted by thinking about something, you might as well hint to yourself: I will think about it when I am done.

Because after you enter the flow, you will feel that this thing that bothers you is irrelevant.

6. Establish an incentive mechanism.

Suppose reviewing for the exam is not something you don't want to do at all.

But you can set up a reward mechanism for yourself. Studying hard in the library for three hours can reward yourself with watching a movie.

Or psychological preset feedback, for example, after careful review, in exchange for failing the exam, or even high scores.

Similarly, whether in daily life or in the process of work, set up a reward mechanism for things that are difficult for you to do, so that even if you get positive feedback, you can accept and participate in what you are doing more easily.