Focus session · reading · 50 min
50-minute focus session for reading with a fan or air conditioner, if you are fitting this around other people
50 minutes on reading — pages rather than paragraphs. Fifty minutes, the length of a therapy hour, with ten minutes off afterwards.
50:00
Press start. The timer keeps time so you do not have to look at a clock.
Notice the heaviest part of your body right now. Let it be heavy. It is designed to fit around other people’s schedules. Follow the instructions and let the rest look after itself.
1 Before you start
- Go to the toilet first. It sounds trivial until you are mid-sentence.
- Give yourself permission to stop when the timer ends, even mid-sentence.
- Close every tab that is not needed for this one task. Not minimised — closed.
- Decide what you will do if you get stuck: write the problem out, then move on.
- Get water now, so you do not have to get up in fifteen minutes.
2 While the timer runs
- If you are bored, the boredom is usually the last thing before something clicks.
- If your attention keeps sliding, shorten the next block rather than abandoning this one.
- When you finish a piece, pause for three seconds before starting the next. It keeps the pace honest.
- If you feel the urge to check something, write it on the paper beside you and keep going. Deal with the list afterwards.
3 When it ends
- If it went badly, note one thing that worked anyway. There is usually one.
- Have a drink of water before you check anything.
- Write down the question you could not answer, so it has somewhere to live.
4What to put on
a fan or air conditioner — A constant mechanical hum with no variation. The lack of change is the point — nothing in it asks for your attention.
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