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Not only stop reading Hacker News (and reddit or similar), but block them in your hosts file so that you can't even cheat. Reading fiction, taking nature walks
by jaaron 17y ago
Not only stop reading Hacker News (and reddit or similar), but block them in your hosts file so that you can't even cheat.
Reading fiction, taking nature walks without your cell phone, or, perhaps best of all, practicing insight meditation can help a lot.
Mental concentration is like a muscle. You need to exercise it (and not drug it up).
- philfreo 17y agoI like the noprocrast feature on HN, and the Mac SelfControl app for blocking distracting websites for a specified period of time.
- tjr 17y agoThanks for mentioning reading fiction. I used to read quite a bit of fiction, especially science fiction. More recently, I've set that aside in the name of spending my reading time on things that are "useful". But I have found, reading fiction is useful, as it activates your imagination in ways that nonfiction simply does not. I still don't read a lot of fiction, but I endeavor to get in some, and I think it helps...