How to exercise your attention and concentration

Genius, first of all, is attention - the ability to pay attention must be cultivated

Maintaining good attention is the basic condition for the brain to carry out cognitive activities such as perception, memory, and thinking. In our learning process, attention is the door, and the only door, that opens our mind. The wider the door opens, the more we learn. Once the attention is distracted or unable to concentrate, the door to the soul is closed, and all useful knowledge and information cannot enter. Because of this, French biologist Georges Cuvier said: "Genius, first of all, is attention."

Under normal circumstances, attention directs our mental activities towards a certain thing, selectively Accept certain information freely, suppress other activities and other information, and concentrate all psychological energy on the pointed thing. Therefore, good concentration will improve the efficiency of our work and study. Attention disorder is mainly characterized by the inability to direct mental activities to a specific thing, or the inability to concentrate all energy on this thing, and the inability to suppress attention to irrelevant things. The reasons for this situation are complex, and many serious psychological disorders can cause attention disorders. For students, it is mainly due to heavy learning load and excessive psychological pressure, which causes a high degree of tension and anxiety, which leads to the difficulty of concentration. In addition, due to lack of sleep, the brain is not fully rested, and attention may also be distracted.

Therefore, when you are troubled by your inability to concentrate and your studies are affected, you may wish to adopt the following methods to correct it:

(1) Develop good sleeping habits< /p>

Some students have a heavy study load, so they stay up late at night. Some students even study in the dormitory with a flashlight and study late into the night; some students cannot sleep on time and chat with their classmates in the dormitory. etc. As a result, I couldn't get up on time in the morning. Even if I forced myself to get up, my mind would be groggy and I couldn't be energetic all day long. Some even fell asleep at their desks in class. As a student, the main learning tasks must be completed during the day. If you are listless during the day, your efficiency will inevitably be low. Therefore, if you are a "night owl" type, I suggest you learn to be a "lark", go to bed on time and get up on time, refresh yourself and improve your learning efficiency during the day.

(2), learn to reduce stress by yourself

The learning tasks of high school students are already very heavy, and the expectations of teachers and parents have added a psychological code to the students; some The students themselves attach great importance to grades, exams, etc., which is nothing more than putting pressure on themselves. They will inevitably be overwhelmed and become tired, nervous and irritable, and it is rare for them to have a moment of psychological peace. Therefore, we must learn to reduce stress on ourselves and not take the quality of our results too seriously. No matter how hard you work, you will gain. As long as we work hard and pay, we will definitely get good rewards. Why should we let worries occupy our minds and look for trouble?

(3) Do some relaxation training

Sit comfortably in a chair or lie on the bed, and then send rest information to various parts of the body. Start with the left foot first, make the foot muscles tighten, then relax, and at the same time suggest it to rest, then order the ankle, calf, knee, thigh, all the way to the trunk to rest, then, from the foot to the trunk, and then from the left and right hands Relax into your torso. At this time, relax everything from the trunk to the neck, head, and face. This relaxation training technique requires repeated practice to be better mastered, but once you master this technique, you will reach a relaxed and calm state in just a few minutes.

(4). Do some concentration training

my country's young mathematicians Yang Le and Zhang Guanghou used to do exercises quickly when they were young to strictly train themselves to concentrate. force. Here I will introduce to you a small game used in psychology to train attention. In a table with 25 small squares, shuffle the order of the numbers 1-25, fill them in, and then count from 1 to 25 as quickly as possible, pointing out while reading, and timing at the same time.

Research shows that: 7-8 year old children take 30-50 seconds to find the numbers on each chart in order, with an average of 40-42 seconds; the time it takes for a normal adult to look at a chart is about 25-30 seconds, some people can shorten it to more than ten seconds. You can make a few more training sheets like this yourself and train them every day. I believe your concentration level will gradually improve.

"Cultivate good attention quality and improve students' academic performance"

Second stage:

As a special quality and ability, concentration of attention needs to be acquired through training. So, what are the ways to train your attention and improve your concentration quality?

Method one: Use the power of positive goals

What is the meaning of this method? That is, when you set a goal for yourself to consciously improve your ability to focus and concentrate, you will find that your ability to concentrate has developed and changed rapidly in a very short period of time.

Students must complete this progress during training. Have a goal that from now on I will be better at focusing than I was in the past. No matter what you do, once you enter, you can quickly and uninterrupted. This is very important. For example, if you have this requirement for yourself today, I need to memorize the content of this lecture basically at once with high concentration. When you have such a training goal, your attention itself will be highly focused and you will eliminate distractions.

Students know that in the military, if the troops are dispersed aimlessly and are surrounded and annihilated by the enemy, they will be defeated. This is the same as in our study, work and career. If we scatter our energy aimlessly, we will always be a failure. Learning to focus one's strength and concentration whenever needed is the genius quality of a successful person. The first way to cultivate this quality is to have such a goal.

Method 2: Cultivate interest in the quality of concentration

With this interest, you will set up many training subjects, training methods, and training methods for yourself. In a very short period of time, or even through a summer of self-training, you will find that you are just like those great scientists, great thinkers, great writers, great politicians, and great military strategists praised in the book. Admirable ability to concentrate.

Students can be relaxed and relaxed during rest and play. Once they start to do something, how to quickly focus their attention is a talent. Just like a military strategist quickly concentrating his forces and annihilating the enemy at one point, this is military genius. We know that in the military, we need to concentrate our forces without being noticed by the enemy. We need to overcome various difficulties in space, geography, and time. We need to overcome the fatigue of the army. We need to mobilize all factors. We need various specific ways to concentrate our forces. means. Students must concentrate their energy, attention, and master various methods. These are all worthy of discussion and are very interesting things.

Method 3: Have confidence in your ability to concentrate

Never accept bad suggestions from yourself or others. Some parents have said this to their children since childhood: My child has trouble paying attention. On many occasions I have heard parents say: My child cannot concentrate in class. Some students may think so themselves. Don't think so, because this status can change.

If you are better at concentrating now, then surely those talented scientists, thinkers, entrepreneurs, and artists still have something to learn from you in this regard, and you are still not as good as them. You have to find a way to surpass them.

For the vast majority of students, as long as you have the self-confidence, believe that you can quickly improve your ability to concentrate, and master the method of concentration, you will have this quality. We are all normal, healthy people. As long as we make up our minds, avoid interference, and eliminate distractions, we can definitely achieve a high degree of concentration. I hope that students will practice training on themselves. After such training, a leap can occur.

Method 4: Be good at eliminating external interference

To train the ability to eliminate interference while eliminating interference. When Mao Zedong was young, in order to train his ability to concentrate, he once set a training subject for himself, studying in city gates and busy places. for what? Just to train your anti-interference ability. Students must know that some outstanding military strategists are still able to judge strategic and tactical choices and orientations in the command center very calmly and with high concentration under heavy artillery fire. The danger of life and death hangs over your head, but you must be able to eliminate the interference of this threat to you to judge how to deploy the military. This ability to resist environmental interference requires training.

I intentionally did this kind of training when I was your age. That is, no matter how noisy the environment is, when I enter the subject I want to read and study, I will turn a deaf ear to all the factors around me. This can be trained successfully.

Method 5: Be good at eliminating inner interference

What needs to be eliminated here is not environmental interference, but inner interference. The environment may be quiet, and the classmates around you may be sitting well in class, but you may have a kind of commotion in your heart, an emotional activity that interferes with you, and a kind of excitement that is not related to this study. For all kinds of emotional activities, we must be good at putting them down and eliminating them. At this time, students must learn to sit upright, relax the body, and relax the entire facial expression, that is, put aside all the emotional interference in the heart along with the relaxation of the body. Often inner distractions are more serious than environmental ones.

Students can think about it, why are some students always able to concentrate in class? Why can't some students concentrate? In addition to whether you have learning goals, interests and self-confidence, another factor is whether you are good at eliminating your own inner interference. Sometimes it's not the classmates around you who are harassing you, but rather the various things that float in your mind. To remove them, this ability needs to be trained. If you just want to live a life of ignorance, confusion, and mediocrity, and even have to rely on your parents to support you when you are thirty years old, or if you just want to live a life of chaos, then you don't need to train for this. However, if you really want to be a modern person who is satisfied with yourself, you must have the quality and ability to focus your attention when something happens, and be good at not only eliminating environmental interference in various environments, but also being able to eliminate Disturbance within oneself.

Method 6: Deal with the relationship between study and rest in a clear rhythm

Students must not study like this: I just review my homework all day, and then, starting from the morning, it seems like I am When reviewing homework, the book is always at hand, but the efficiency is very low. I do this and that at the same time. Twelve hours passed like this. I didn't get a good rest, didn't play well, and didn't achieve much in my studies. Or, you go to the park early in the morning to read a foreign language, and sit there for an hour or two, idly and leisurely, and even if you say you want to read it, it’s almost as if you haven’t read it, and you don’t remember much. This is called the unclear rhythm of study and rest, work and leisure. The correct attitude is to be clear. That means I will focus on reciting 80 English words for one hour from now on, and see if I can recite them. Concentrate highly and try to write down these words. After studying, rest and play again. When you need to study again, you can focus highly. This is called relaxation and relaxation. This ability must be trained. Never bide your time, never torture yourself. You must be good at concentrating your attention in a short period of time and studying efficiently. You should train yourself like this: when you are quiet, be like a tree; when you are in action, be like lightning and thunder; when you are resting, be as scattered as flowing water; when you are studying, be like concentrating superior forces like a military attack. This kind of training can make you more and more capable of concentrating.

Method 7: Quiet space

This method is very simple. When you review your homework or study at home, put other books on your desk that have nothing to do with what you are studying at that time. , all items are cleared away. In your field of vision, there are only the subjects you are going to study now. This kind of spatial processing is a necessary means in the initial stages of training yourself to concentrate. Students often find such vivid scenes. You are sitting at the table and want to learn mathematics. There is a newspaper here, which was originally placed under the book. There is some news on it. You can't help but read it and read it for a long time. , then I realized that I was here to learn mathematics. A newspaper will take away your worries. Or maybe you were originally going to study, but the small TV on the corner of the table was still on. As you watched it, you left the mathematics kingdom and arrived at Jacky Cheung's place. This is entirely possible. It might even be a small piece of paper with something written on it, and when you look at it, you think of something.

So, as the initial stage of training your attention, before doing something, you must first clear all irrelevant things on your desk. Then, bring yourself quickly to the topic. If you can get to the point without distracting thoughts for one minute, you will be great. If you can get to the point in half a minute, that’s even better.

If you sit there and enter the moment for ten or five seconds, that is genius, that is efficiency. Some people say that they spent four hours reviewing their homework. In fact, most of those four hours were spent in a disorganized and inefficient manner, which was useless. On the contrary, when you start to study, sit there and forget about everything that has nothing to do with it, this is high efficiency.

Method 8: Clean your brain

Clearing your desk is to focus your attention by clearing your sight. Then, you can also clean your brain at the same time. If you clean your desk frequently, you will gradually develop an analogy and feel that your brain is like a desk.

The brain is like a screen, and there are many things piled up in it. Once you come up, you should put away all kinds of irrelevant emotions, thoughts and information that are floating in your mind at this moment, and keep them in your brain. Take down the subjects you are working on now, just like clearing your desk.

Students, I hope you will do this kind of training starting from today. It is not difficult. When you get rid of all the distracting thoughts in your mind, you will enter the focused theme in an instant, and your brain will be fully mobilized. Only then will you have intelligence, invention, creation, and The ability of observation, memory, logical reasoning and imagination. If this is not the case, and you sit there and within ten minutes your head is still busy with traffic, things are still irrelevant, and the world is far away, then these ten minutes are wasted. In another ten minutes, there was no traffic anymore, but the streets were still bustling with people. Another ten minutes passed. When learning finally begins, it is inevitable that it will be half-hearted and inefficient. We can no longer have this state of mind. We must be good at quickly entering the subject we are concentrating on.

Method 9: Training of all senses

We talked about cleaning up our desks. In fact, in a broader sense, we can conduct similar training in all aspects of vision, hearing, and feeling. Students can train themselves to stare at a target in their vision for a period of time without being distracted by other images. You can train yourself to listen to one sound at a time, even though there are thousands of sounds. You can also feel only the existence of the sun or only the existence of the moon in the entire world, or only feel the temperature of the surrounding air. This sensory concentration training is a useful technique for training attention.

Method 10: Don’t stop at the difficult points

Students will realize that when we explore and observe things that we understand and are interested in, they become more Easy to concentrate. For example, I like mathematics. It is easier to concentrate in mathematics class because I understand it and am more interested. On the contrary, because I don't like chemistry very much, lack interest, and lack sufficient understanding of the teacher's lectures, I may be distracted.

In this case, we have both positive and negative countermeasures. The correct strategy is to use our own understanding and interests to focus our attention. When we have to study and learn about things that we still lack understanding and interest in, this is a particularly difficult training.

First of all, when students are listening to the teacher's lectures, if there is any link that they do not understand, you should not stop at this link. If you don’t understand this, it doesn’t matter. Just listen to the teacher’s lecture. When you are studying something and you don’t quite understand the problem, it doesn’t matter, just continue studying. When you are reading a book, you don’t quite understand this point, and you still don’t quite understand it despite your efforts. It doesn’t matter, just put it down and continue reading. Don’t let the difficulties of the first few pages put you off from reading the entire book. In fact, as you read on, you may find that you can understand most of the content that follows. What you say you don’t understand in the previous pages, you will gradually understand.

If you still lack interest in these contents, and you need to study it and learn it, then you have to think like this. Interest is gradually developed in the process of learning, mastering and practice.