I can't concentrate on my work. How to help yourself turn your head on
Let's figure out what prevents us from keeping our main tool - the brain - in good shape all the time. What are the reasons for the lack of concentration while having the ability to do so? What are the ways to use this potential 100%?
Your work is connected with intellectual activity, therefore the brain is your main capital. But bad luck - it happens that he does not want to turn on in any way. You just can't make a mental effort. This is how different people describe these states.
“I have been unable to concentrate on anything for more than a month. And vitamins don't help. As soon as I sit down at the computer, tune in, something immediately distracts - either my husband turns on the TV and I listen, then the child watches cartoons, and I begin to remember what will happen next. I'll hang on the forum instead of doing work."
“The session is coming soon, I have to write a term paper, prepare for exams, but I just can't concentrate. Something incomprehensible is going on with the brain. Sleeplessness at night, all sorts of thoughts climb. I think maybe I chose the wrong specialty? Maybe you should have studied as a director or took up music? How can one get out of this state of doing nothing and pathological laziness?"
“It’s impossible to concentrate during working hours - then someone comes in, then I think, I’ll leave my thoughts somewhere. Any noise distracts. But in the evening, when everyone is gone, work begins. Or it also happens that there is no clear thought, you hang around all day, killing time. And as soon as I caught the idea, I immediately turned on, I even forget to eat”.
“I can't make my brain work all the time. That is, it works for 15-20 minutes without interruption, then it turns off - I cease to understand the most elementary things. After that, you need to be distracted by something else. How to make your brain work all the time?"
Let's figure out what prevents us from keeping our main tool - the brain - in good shape all the time. What are the reasons for the lack of concentration while having the ability to do so? What are the ways to use this potential 100%? And knowledge about the human psyche, which is given by Yuri Burlan's training "System-vector psychology", will help us in this.
Important conditions
During the training, we learn that thinking, concentrating thought is the main purpose and main pleasure of a person with a sound vector. That is why, if he suddenly loses this ability, it causes deep anxiety and even fear in him. It's scary when the head doesn't work.
If the professional activity of a sound engineer is associated with intellectual work, then he is in his place. And if for some reason he cannot work with his head, then these reasons can be eliminated and this ability restored.
Of course, the physical condition and the conditions in which a person works are also important. Getting enough sleep is important. After all, mental work is extremely energy-consuming. It is much harder than digging the ground. Therefore, it is important that the head is clear and rested.
But if everything is in order with this, but still it does not work? So there are other reasons. The best concentration of thought can be achieved only in silence and solitude, when no one distracts from the deeply internal process of comprehending something. Often the conditions of our work do not correspond to the task at hand.
If your job requires significant mental effort, demand from your superiors that you have a separate office, or at least an office, in which there will be the same as you, immersed in their tasks of sound engineers. It is an illusion that you can do complex intellectual work in a crowded place. The soundman was created precisely by an introvert in order to give birth to thought forms in silence and solitude.
If you work from home, it is best to have your own room, preferably with a door to block out distracting sounds. The fact is that the ear of the owner of the sound vector is the most sensitive organ and reacts very strongly to noise stimuli. Some are able to isolate themselves from the outside world with headphones with music and work under such a background, but not all. Many people need complete silence to create - write computer programs, articles, novels, scientific dissertations. And study as well.
If the situation with the conditions is completely hopeless, then you can try using earplugs. But, as a rule, you can always find a way to organize a suitable workplace for yourself.
Motivation is an idea
Many people realize that they need motivation to turn on their brains - an interest in what they are doing. It really is. And we begin to understand well the mechanism of this phenomenon at the training System-vector psychology.
The fact is that a person is, figuratively speaking, a desire for pleasure. And desire is an emptiness that requires filling. While this desire is there, a person does something in an effort to fill this emptiness and get pleasure. As soon as the emptiness is filled, the desire passes, and it is much more difficult for a person to force himself to do something.
This can be compared to the fact that while a person is hungry, he moves, does something to get food. And as soon as he ate, he immediately lay down on the sofa and wants to rest. The person becomes lazy, and in order to cheer up, he needs to get hungry again.
For a sound engineer, pleasure is the process of thinking, and the desired result is the birth of an idea, a thought form. If he is captured by an idea, he can work for hours, forgetting about sleep and food. But as soon as the idea is realized, a state of emasculation may arise, when a new shortage, a new desire must accumulate, so that one wants to concentrate thought again.
So that the process of creativity, involved work does not stop, it is possible and necessary to use the lack of other people. Our own desire is finite and ceases to be felt as soon as we fill it. Therefore, the pleasure of realizing only one's desires is rather fleeting. When we do something for others, we have a constant supply of inspiration. Therefore, as soon as you feel a loss of concentration, go out of your seclusion into the world to observe people, learn the news - in general, bring your mind into focus on those around you. To create something, you need to have an application point, do it for someone. And these are always different people. In them, you will see what will spur your mind to work further.
By the way, for many sound engineers the most productive time is night. And this factor can also be used in work.
Bad advice
Just do not listen to the clever people who say that if your mind is tired of concentrating, you need to reduce the load on your head. This is really bad advice, because for an audio professional, concentration is vital - and the more the better. This develops it, renews it, allows you to maintain vitality. For him, if you want, it is even good for his health, because pleasure prolongs our life. And for a sound engineer, giving birth to an idea, a formulation of a law of physics, a mathematical formula, a musical or literary work, to develop a computer program or to solve a mathematical problem is always a real pleasure. But the greatest pleasure lies in focusing on the human psyche, in realizing its hidden laws.
How to use the pleasure principle
If a person does not like what he is doing, he will find a thousand and one reasons not to do it.
So, you can never force yourself to study if you do not like the business you intend to do. Conversely, if you like your future job, if you are led to it by a real, and not imaginary interest, then you will easily concentrate on the learning process, trying to learn as much as possible on the issue of interest to you.
This is why choosing the right business is so important. And the training System-vector psychology helps us with this choice easily. Opening the psyche, defining our vectors, we get an understanding of our desires and properties, which allows us to accurately determine the choice of business that we will do with pleasure. This means that there will be no burnout and concentration problems.
Hivemind potential
“It is impossible to burn with an idea all the time so as to forget about sleep and food,” you object. And you will be right. Although, of course, there are individuals whose strength of sound desire is such that one idea inspires them throughout their lives. But not all people are like that. In any business there is a routine. And inspiration can run out. But only if the creative process is limited only by you.
Reaching a new level is possible if in your work you use the potential of the collective mind to the maximum. This is how those who understand it write about it:
“For me, for example, freelance exchanges are a universal motivator from the first day of registration. I feel myself inside this large team of people, among them there are always many who are actively working, and this is a great stimulation."
Yes this is true. Your creative potential is limited by your personal capabilities, and the potential of a group of like-minded people is greater exactly as many times as there are participants in the project. That is why brainstorming has long been used in intellectual work, which allows you to see the problem in volume, from many points of view, collect ideas and quickly find a solution.
General passion for an idea is contagious. Shared discussion provides inspiration that needs to be carried immediately into the work, implemented immediately and without delay. And this source of inspiration will never end, because there are a lot of people. They are all different with different experiences, values, properties. Everyone sees the world differently. By combining our views under the auspices of one idea, we get a product unprecedented in terms of volume and quality.
This experience was widely used in the early Soviet Union during the organization of "sharag", where scientific workers not only worked together, but also spent their free time together without interrupting the intellectual process. For Russia, this experience is mentally acceptable, because we are collectivists, we are close to doing everything together.
But the leading corporations of Western countries with their individualistic skin mentality have already discerned that the future of intellectual work belongs to collectives. For example, Steve Jobs is considered the inventor of the iPhone, but in fact it is the fruit of the work of a huge number of Apple specialists.
So, if you want your brain to always remain in good shape, look for a team that is close to you in spirit and values that it brings to this world.
Getting to know yourself
Concentration of thought is the most important condition of life for the owner of the sound vector. However, in our time it is no longer enough for him to solve the problems of the material world. The next step in its development is the recognition of the human psyche, in the process of which the meaning of life is also revealed - the key sound need. Without this, now even the most realized sound engineer can feel that he is missing something in life. Lack of understanding of yourself, your I - the path to apathy and depression. In such states, it is certainly impossible to concentrate on work. Why concentrate when everything is meaningless?
If all else fails, the only remedy left is to get to know yourself. As deep as possible. This can be done at the training of Yuri Burlan System-Vector Psychology. Only here you can find out what your potential is, what is your purpose in life, what is its true meaning. And the experience of this meaning will never allow you to lose interest in life. This means that your intellect will always be on alert. Register for a free introductory online training by Yuri Burlan here.
