Yes, keep the amount of noise to minimum. I subscribed to daily newsletter of HackerNews and check it only then no more. I deleted my accounts on other social n

Yes, keep the amount of noise to minimum. I subscribed to daily newsletter of HackerNews and check it only then no more. I deleted my accounts on other social networks that I never really used. Remember, Internet is like TV nowadays, everyone is fighting for your attention because attention is money. One thing to practice the ability to focus is reading books, I've seen it first hand how hard is it to read a book after being immersed in various shallow activities and how it gradually improves when practiced daily. There are also tricks that you can use to get your mind to focus, for example working in fixed blocks of time (pomodoro technique). Having fake deadlines makes the mind focused to finish the task at hand but it requires a little bit of planning.