So even if you say, well, I'm not trying to do deep work now, I'm in line at the supermarket.

So I'm bored. Let me look at some things.

That actually affects your deep work the next morning or the next day when you actually want to do it.

So there's this whole notion of passive

training where you basically are embracing boredom, where you give your mind plenty of practice in actually resisting the urge for distraction, being bored, being present.

That actually has the same sort of ramifications on your ability to focus down the line, just like

my previous example of smoking having to do on

cardiovascular fitness. So you know if you're smoking outside of your practice as a

professional athlete when you get to your actual game you're going to struggle.

I think it's the same thing that if your

life, your attention constantly is shifting towards things that are novel

and interesting. If you can't tolerate boredom, it's going to be very hard when it

comes time to focus for you to actually do it. So we have sort of this active, let me get my mind better at resisting distraction.

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