It's not LinkedIn's fault why it's so hard to focus

It’s about being unwilling to face stillness and total presence, trying frantically and unconsciously to escape from it.

Why?

Because if you enjoyed being alone, without stimuli, without information, but only with the relevant task at hand, you would not feel the need to distract yourself.

For almost everyone, this uneasy feeling of boredom and tension is too much to handle. They are conditioned to associate this feeling with an immediate urge to quiet it down, whether tech, food, or alcohol. Unconsciously, of course.

But this feeling will not go away because you distract yourself from it. If you have a pebble in your shoe, it will stay there no matter how comfortable everything is around you. The best option is to remove it.

In the same way, if you really want to focus and get ahead in life, you need to accept and welcome this feeling.

The solution:

Whenever you feel jittery, anxious, tense, or immersed in many thoughts, do nothing and just observe.

Be still, observe the unease. Notice the worried feeling behind the thoughts, and the thoughts will subside. Notice the clenched hands, short breath, strained temples, hurting eyes, and heaviness in your chest area. No judgment. Just accept them as they are, without needing to change them.

You can also look at a particular place for one minute. Just look as if you did not know how to talk.

When you become totally present, you can regain the ability to focus, no matter where you are. You accept your situation fully and can thus work with it rather than against it.

Also, when the feeling is fully accepted, it will be transmuted to deep peace. You will not feel the need to distract yourself again.

Now you can make a true contribution to yourself and the world.