Hello, beautiful beans and welcome to the podcast episode of today.

So this is another neuroscience of dot, dot, dot, dot episode, which I'm very excited about. The one I did,

I wanted two or three weeks ago, got so many like positive comments. Everyone was like, we love

the neuroscience episodes. We want more of these. It's like you used to do heaps or if these back in

the day, bring them back. So I'm really thrilled at the feedback because I love doing these episodes.

It really kind of is the basis of why I started the podcast in the first place.

And so I'd really love to do a nice deep dive of science.

So anyway, the episode of today is about the neuroscience of focus, distraction and attention.

We're going to talk about how to rebuild your ability to focus and pay attention and have

sustained attention.

We're going to be talking about focus versus attention, brain regions and kind of pathways

that are involved.

We're going to be talking about the neuropharmacology of attention. We're talking

about dopamine and acetycholine in particular, these two main neurochemicals that I want to be

touching on. And then we're going to talk about the effects of low focus versus the ability for

high focus and how that, you know, can impact your life. And we're also going to be talking about

how to begin to improve these things and start reaping the benefits, okay? Um, this, a lot of the stuff that I talk

about are going to be things that you already have at your disposal to start improving your focus

and attention today. Okay. I really believe that having good focus is a major contributing factor to our mental health,

our overall levels of life satisfaction and happiness because when you are focused,

you are able to hold your attention on things that matter to you.

You are able to put sustained effort into something and start

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