Regaining Focus

If you’re anything like me, this summer break has obliterated your ability to focus for long periods of time.

I have become so bad at concentrating that I can’t even spend 30 minutes reading the weekly publication I subscribe to.

So how do we go about combating this?

Practise.

Sit down with your work, or if you have none sit down with a nonfiction book or article.

Set a timer for 15 minutes. Most of us can still manage just 15 minutes but don’t be afraid to scale it back to 10 if you can’t.

Read for those 15 minutes and try to only pay attention to your work during that time. Know that soon you will have a break and you can check Facebook, Tumblr etc then. Reading in a quiet place will help.

When the timer goes off, take a 5 to 10 minute break to stretch your legs, grab a drink, check social media or whatever you like to do.

Then repeat the process.

Every few days add an extra 5 minutes to your work time.

Your concentration is a little like a muscle - it takes ‘exercise’ to make it stronger but in this case, your workout is mental.

Within a few weeks your focus will be as good as, if not better than, it was before.

For many of you school starts in about a week. You can make a lot of progress in that time so get to it and you’ll be glad of the results when the time comes to revise for exams!

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Rome David Pinto

A small sampling of the images you will find on David Pinto’s tumblr. In his words, he is not a photographer, just a dreamer. This photoset focuses on photographs his home city: Rome, one of the most architecturally significant cities in history.

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“There are two MLKs. There once was a man named Martin Luther King Jr. who actually lived and breathed. He was a radical who believed in the redistribution of wealth, argued for slave reparations and that wrote that moderate whites who didn’t speak out on racism were just as bad as the Ku Klux Klan. Seventy-five percent of Americans disapproved of that man when he was killed by a white supremacist in 1968. Then, there is the Martin Luther King Jr. that exists in the collective white memory. Through a complex combination of whitewashing, self-guilt and the intentional rewriting of history that absolves them of their hatred, they have painted a sanitized, impressionist portrait of a civil rights icon whose dreams were fulfilled by America’s unwavering commitment to justice and equality. Out of whole cloth, they managed to fabricate a fantastic hologram of King that is ahistorical, but still “based on a true story.” Their Martin was a lover, not a fighter. They remember a socially conservative, respectable reconciler; not an anti-establishment revolutionary. And, for their sake, his doctrine of nonviolent resistance was eventually reduced to simple “nonviolence.” This is the King they will remember this weekend.”

— Martin Luther King Jr. and the White Delusion of a ‘Non-Racist’ America (via blxckberrying)

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