Author: MattB, Student of Focus

One of the catalysts for starting Attention Club was an article that surfaced when I started searching online for Concentration Training.

I landed on part two of a series on attention by Brett & Kate McKay of the AOM blog. I found the articles useful, but the navigation on their blog doesn’t make it easy to move from one to another.

I wanted to be able to read and re-read them a few times, so this is an index page for them and added some notes about each article.

These articles are a starting point for my study.

Attention, Please! What Every Man Ought to Know About Focus

Become the Supreme Commander of Your Mind: How to Effectively Manage Your Attention

Your Concentration Training Program: 11 Exercises That Will Strengthen Your Attention

Dig Deep: You’re Stronger Than You Think

https://www.artofmanliness.com/tag/willpower/

How to Quit Mindlessly Surfing the Internet and Actually Get Stuff Done

12 Concentration Exercises from 1918

Yesterday, I reached a point where enough really was enough.

I decided had to do something about a lifetime of failure to focus on stuff that’s important to me.

I feel I’ve blown most of my life on trivia. Not for want of trying to spend it wisely, but because my attention never seems to work when I want it to.

As I was thinking how to fix it, the idea of a lifelong quest for better focus came to mind.

That would be cool, I thought, I could be like a monk on a perpetual pilgrimage to the temple of focus.

The mental picture is still growing on me.

So today, April 4th, 2020 my quest begins.

I need somewhere to collect my thoughts, discoveries, reading lists, reminders and so on. And I know there are millions of people, like me, with severely stunted powers of focus. It’s a symptom of the modern age.

So I’m thinking to make my quest public here with this blog. Who knows? Maybe I can help others by helping myself.

In time, I hope to have some practical wisdom I can apply for my own benefit. Some kind of daily, weekly, monthly practice that that will help me. And if it helps me break the bonds of perpetual distraction – then most likely it will help someone else too.

That would be really cool.

So here goes.

Today, the Attention Club is born, with me as its first member.

You’re welcome to join me.