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A neuroscience perspective on Focus, from distractions and multi-tasking over improvement strategies to the Flow State
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Hi, I’m Tiffany and I studied Computer Science and Classics at Stanford. This video was filmed a year before I graduated. Now I look back on this and see how much I’ve grown from the experience!
I’m sharing an experience where I was academically dismissed from college and how I turned it around.
The transition from high school to college is not always an easy one.
If you have ever felt completely absorbed in something, you might have been experiencing a mental state that psychologists refer to as flow. Achieving this state can help people feel greater enjoyment, energy, and involvement.
Flow state is losing yourself in the moment; when you find your abilities are well matched to an activity, the world around you quietens and you may find yourself achieving things you only dreamt to be possible.
FLOW is a state of total absorption in an activity where the individual is so focused that nothing else seems to matter. Time flies by and the activity becomes a joyful, even ecstatic, experience.
Think about the last time where you were engaged in an activity and you simply lost track of time. You were focused like a ninja, you felt amazing and it seemed as if there was nothing else on this planet besides you and your activity.
Many of my peers and I have been experiencing some more-intense-than-usual academic burnout—here to put my thoughts out there and hopefully help people feel less alone.
When an ADHD brain leaves one task to go to another, and then back again, they may have a difficult time finding their footing in what they were doing in that original task, AND not have the motivation to begin it.
School’s tough. You’re tougher. Struggle harder. Ask for help when you don’t understand. Most of all, don’t give up, friends!!
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