And it's very important that after about to focus , that you take at least 10 minutes . And ideally as long as 30 minutes and go through what I call deliberate deffo you really want to focus on somewhat menial tasks or things that really don't require a ton of your concentration . This is starting to become a little bit of a movement out there in the kind of pop psychology and optimization world .
Well , our brain and body operate within that day or within each and every day , I should say with 90 minute ultradian cycles . So my suggestion would be anytime you're going to sit down and try and focus , you're going to try and do a focused bout of physical exercise or skill learning or musical learning , or maybe you're even just having a conversation , maybe you're a therapist or you're attending therapy or a class . How long should it be ?
Ok . It doesn't have to be the full 90 minutes , but trying to push yourself to be able to drop into two hours of focus or three hours of focus while possible is not really in line with what we know about the underlying biology , everything from our sleep states or the different stages of sleep . And our waking states is divided into these 90 minute cycles or so called trade in cycles .
How long should it be ? And the ideal duration is about 90 minutes , not exactly 90 minutes , but we can reliably say 90 minutes or less . Ok .
The question I often get is how long should I try to focus ? Well , the research literature point to the key importance of so called traian cycles .
