Focus check
Five questions on clarity, blocks, interruption recovery, and system-fiddling.
Five questions on the parts of this course people most often invert. No timer, and nothing leaves your browser.
1. You sit down to work and feel a vague reluctance to start. What should you check first?
If you can't name the next physical action, it's a clarity problem, not a focus problem - and discipline won't fix an undefined task.
2. What distinguishes a clarity problem from an attention problem?
Trouble starting points at an undefined task. Trouble staying, on a clearly defined task, is the actual focus problem.
3. What is the rule that makes a ninety-minute block work?
Most blocks start with fifteen minutes of poor work. Sitting through it, rather than waiting for the right frame of mind, is the whole skill.
4. You are interrupted mid-task. What should you do before turning away?
A breadcrumb costs five seconds and turns a long recovery into a short one, because you return to something rather than to a blank space.
5. You have changed your productivity setup three weeks in a row. What does this suggest?
Repeated setup changes are a sophisticated form of avoidance. Freeze the system, log irritations instead of fixing them, and fix only what still matters in a month.
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