How to Concentrate | Dandapani & Jim Kwik
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Published 2019-10-07
Concentration is something you can learn and practice. If someone in your life is struggling with concentration, the first step is to teach them how to concentrate, and the second step is for them to practice it to become better at it.
Have empathy and compassion for yourself when learning about concentration. You were probably never taught how to concentrate or how the mind works in school so while you are in the process of learning how to do it, you can’t expect perfection right away.
In everyday life, people make the mistake of telling others to focus without acknowledging their lack of training e.g. big companies tell their employees to focus without having taught them how to focus in the first place.
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About Dandapani:
Dandapani is a Hindu priest, entrepreneur and a former monk of 10 years. After graduating university with a degree in Electrical Engineering he left it all behind to become a Hindu monk under the guidance of one of Hinduism’s foremost spiritual leaders of our time, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. For 10 years he lived a life of serious personal discipline and training at his guru’s cloistered Hindu monastery in Hawaii.
He works with entrepreneurs globally and companies such as Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Nike, Trivago, Fortress Investment Group, Xero in cultivating focus and managing energy. His TEDx talk has over 2.9 million views and both his GoalCast videos garnered over a total of 75 million views in just five months.
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Show notes:
0:00 Intro
0:48 Why concentration is important
2:03 Have compassion for yourself
4:14 Technology and concentration
5:25 What is concentration
9:15 What is awareness
11:03 How to concentrate & focus
15:34 Concentration exercise
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All Comments (21)
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1. Do one thing at a time. 2. Finish what you've started 3. Practice will power, that is, do a little bit more than expected.
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I pray that whoever reads this and is going through a difficult time, don't give up, good things are coming for you, you will achieve your dreams in this lifetime
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Two of my favourite teachers together. Amazing
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I have been struggling my life with ADHD ,and dispersion for 17yrars . Maybe more than that , started getting medication for 8 years , all I have heard is I have to deal with it. It took 17years to me to figure out that cause of all these bullshit sicknesses is concerntation. I practiced , forced myself to too hard finally I could rewire my brain and completely got rid of all my mental issues . Last week I suddenly become someone entirely different and feel like a genius who knows everything. I am 37 now. My life just started .. 😊
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this was exactly what I needed. I'm finding it very hard to focus on my studies, my awareness keeps drifting away which makes studying way harder, it's taking me more time than it should. This is my "aha" moment when I noticed that I really need to work on my concentration, thank you both. My aha moment here was when Dandapani said " imagine you've been practising distraction for 20 years, you'd be so good at it" which is true in my case. Thank you Jim for helping us live more fulfilled lives. You are great.
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This should be taught in school..
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Well, one must breathe all the time, why not focus upon your breathing even just for a few minutes per day, especially in the morning. Feel the breath going in and out at the tip of the nose, notice when the mind drifts away, bring it back and think of nothing but the breathing itself, always coming back after drifting. Do that for 5 or 10 minutes each morning and you will find that you are able to apply that to any task. Thank you Jim and Dandapani for sharing, love you guys!
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When Dandapani said, "do thing one at a time" I was studying at the same time listening to this. Ooops.
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My two favourite mentors together.. wonderful.
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No teacher will teach you to concentrate.Great topic..God bless you both..
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This is very helpful to me. I suffer from OCD and my therapist once told me that "the mind is tree a full of monkeys; some are sad, some are happy, some are fighting, and some are throwing shit all over the place." You take this metaphor and you marry it with Dandapani's, and it in a way it all makes sense. You can't control your thoughts, but you can control what you do about them. I once heard that a big reason why people cant meditate, and profoundly refuse to, is solely because once they close their eye, the notice how "crazy" they are in terms of the vast thoughts, images, short/long stories that come to play. The point is at the moment not to run away, but to run towards. You do this, one step at a time, and the more you practice, the bigger and better each step feels. Thank you Dandapani, the state of Maine loves you and so do I. <3
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This was never taught in my school days. This is truly magical. Thank you.
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I’m going to focus in feeling satisfied, happy, and be way more aware of my moods, when I’m in conversations!! I want to have more meaningful conversation and stop being so self centered!!!
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The apposite that 16 - 17 hours of distraction and you become expert , great one sir
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I love the fact that even camera goes out of focus during this video. Great content as always Jim and Danapani.
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Awareness is so amazing. It’s been a long time but I’m very happy to stumble upon this. I’ll be practicing my concentration starting with my wife and son.
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"Do one thing at a time" & I was reading comments while watching the video... 😜
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Thank you, Jim. We need Great Spirits, Minds like you and Dandapani are. We need to wake up and stay conscious instead of "sleeping" our life in illusion. We get very useful help to take our life into our hands instead of living as victims. Peace with You.
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I've used an opportunity to concentrate fully while watching my two favourite wise men!
