Daily Productive Sharing 1087 - How to Stay Focused

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When we're feeling stressed, it can be difficult to stay focused. How can we resolve this issue? Scott Young offers five methods:

1. Stress leads to anxiety, and anxiety either causes us to avoid the problem or drains our mental energy;
2. When anxious, use a cognitive psychology approach by asking yourself: which of these worries are 100% valid, which are impossible, and which fall somewhere in between?
3. You can also use exposure therapy by treating the task as an experiment to see how confident you are in completing it;
4. Anxiety is often future-focused, so staying present can help shift attention away from the future—this is another effective option;
5. The fourth method is visualizing what success would look like, as these positive signals can counterbalance some of the anxiety;
6. Lastly, if a task is very challenging, focus less on the outcome and more on your effort. Simply trying hard is already a form of success.

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当我们感到压力大的时候，很难保持专注。那么我们如何可以化解这一问题呢？Scott Young 给出了五个方法：

1. 压力会导致焦虑，而焦虑会导致我们趋于逃避问题，或者耗费我们宝贵的心力；
2. 当我们焦虑时，不妨借用认知心理学的方法，问问自己，这些焦虑到底哪些是100%成立的，哪些是不可能成立的，哪些是介于两者之间的？
3. 我们也可以借用暴露疗法，把将要完成的任务当作是一个实验，看看自己有多少把握实现；
4. 通常的焦虑是基于未来的，而专注当下能帮助我们不再关注未来，所以这也是一个选项；
5. 第四种方法是在大脑里设想完成这些任务会是什么样的状况，这些积极的信号也能抵消一部分焦虑；
6. 最后，如果一项任务非常挑战，我们就不要太关注结果，而关注自己是否努力，只要努力就已经是一种成功。

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