How to Use Exercise to Improve Focus

I’ve been focusing on distraction lately. It’s led to an important insight: the only specimen we have of the dinosaur, Seismosaurus, appears to have died by choking on a rock.

Allow me to start again.

An important insight is that one (of the many) things that can pull us out of focus is discomfort. Like the proverbial lobster sitting in a pot of water, we don’t notice the heat slowly rising. However, in real life, lobsters reflexively move away from pain. That’s why Swiss government made it illegal to boil lobsters without stunning them…