5 minutes to rebuild your attention span

[00:00:00]This might sound a little harsh, but what you're doing right now might be the reason why you don't have an attention span.

[00:00:07]Bear with me. Every time your attention gets pulled to the next thing and the next thing and the next thing, you're training a part of the brain called the salience network that every tiny little piece of novelty is important. This salience network is what decides what should capture your attention. So, anytime something does grab your attention and you redirect focus and bring it back to what you were doing, you're training your salience network to be more discerning, to be picky, to be stronger. You're basically resistance training your distraction threshold.

[00:00:38]But, anytime something grabs your attention and you run with it, you're training your salience network to be lazy, to be the opposite of picky. So, the opposite of letting your attention get captured is to bring it back.

[00:00:52]And guess what is the best way to practice bringing back attention?

[00:00:56]Meditation. Just 5 minutes a day. Every time you notice yourself thinking, bring your attention back to your breath, the sound of the fan, anything in the present moment, and then let go again.

[00:01:07]And do this again and again. That's how you build your attention span back up.

[00:01:11]And if you've watched to this point, congratulations, your attention span is greater than 82% of everyone else on TikTok. Now, go do 5 minutes of meditation and make it 95%.