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Today, we're going to be talking about how to train your attention span.

Because do you ever sit down to work in two minutes in, you feel this pull to check your phone

or literally do anything else but the thing that you need to focus on?

If so, I want you to realize that's not just a bad habit.

That is your attention span.

And if you're like the average human nowadays,

it's shrinking every single year. What used to be an hour of sitting down and being focused

is now 43 seconds before our brain wants to be somewhere else. And the worst part is that you

probably don't even really notice how deeply distracted you've actually become in your own life. But the good news is that you probably don't even really notice how deeply distracted you've actually become

in your own life. But the good news is that it's fixable. So if you are willing to retrain your

brain, you will be able to break out of the distraction loop that you have been stuck in for years.

And so real quick, I just want you to understand if you rewind back to a moment where you've

ever been with a toddler and they're playing with building blocks or whatever it might be,

they'll sit there and they can play with a building blocks or they can play with their book

and they could be there for 45 minutes, just absolute laser focus, locked in pure flow. I want you to

understand that was you too at one point in time of your life. You were born with deep focus.

You are not born distracted. You were trained to be distracted. What happened? Well, we've

unconsciously been training ourselves to be distracted,

to scroll, to toggle between 37 tabs on our computer, to check our phone 96 times a day,

and we just call that normal. So when people have a short attention span, or they say,

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