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# Focus & Productivity

Jeremy Nixon's compiled knowledge on attention, focus, execution, work ethic, habits, and personal systems. Synthesized from 40+ raw entries.

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## Attention & Focus

The ability to direct and sustain attention is a foundational skill. Jeremy studied it systematically:

### Core Frameworks
- [[your-brain-at-work]] -- David Rock's neuroscience of focus
- [[golemans-focus]] -- Daniel Goleman on attention types
- [[deep-work]] -- Cal Newport's deep work framework
- [[attention-focus-literature]] -- Comprehensive literature review
- [[attention-focus]] -- Hub page for all focus material

### Practical Focus Methods
- [[17-02-09-learning-how-to-focus]] -- Learning focus as a skill
- [[17-07-30-expanding-attention-span]] -- Expanding what you can attend to
- [[19-10-12-ways-to-improve-focus]] -- Actionable focus improvements
- [[17-08-02-how-to-silence-the-chatter]] -- Quieting mental noise

## Execution & Work Ethic

- [[compressing-execution]] -- The compressed guide to getting things done
- [[18-01-04-building-a-work-ethic]] -- How to develop the capacity for sustained work
- [[relentlessness]] -- On relentless pursuit of goals
- [[relentless]] -- Tim Grover's framework (book notes)
- [[grover]] -- More on Grover's approach
- [[17-07-05-ways-to-increase-action-bias]] -- Moving from thinking to doing
- [[17-08-25-ways-to-induce-action-bias-in-a-community]] -- Creating action-oriented groups
- [[17-10-16-accomplishing-arbitrary-deadlines]] -- Hitting deadlines

## Motivation & Energy

- [[motivation]] -- Core document on motivation
- [[motivation-idea-space]] -- The full space of motivational approaches
- [[forces-motivating-greatness]] -- What drives great achievement
- [[06-19-14-energy]] -- On managing energy
- [[18-02-18-how-to-become-obsessed]] -- Cultivating productive obsession
- [[19-06-24-ways-to-induce-hypomania]] -- Inducing states of high energy and creativity
- [[20-07-20-reward-system-options]] -- Different approaches to reward systems

## Productivity Systems

- [[productivity-systems]] -- Overview of productivity systems
- [[19-06-06-10-systems-worth-having]] -- The 10 most valuable personal systems
- [[meta-commitments]] -- High-level commitments that drive daily behavior
- [[lifescore]] -- Quantified self-assessment system
- [[daily-habits-decision-making]] -- Daily habit framework
- [[18-08-03-how-to-use-my-time-more-effectively]] -- Time optimization
- [[20-03-10-questions-to-ask-regularly-life-reframes]] -- Regular self-check questions

## Habits

- [[daily-habits-decision-making]] -- Core daily habits
- [[15-07-17-intellectual-habitslifestyle]] -- Intellectual lifestyle habits
- [[20-01-06-accountability-schemes]] -- Accountability systems
- [[20-01-06-becoming-autocatalytic]] -- Becoming self-sustaining in productivity

## Systems & Life Design

- [[my-life]] -- Jeremy's life system overview
- [[ferris]] -- Tim Ferriss-style lifestyle design
- [[lifestyle-design]] -- Broader lifestyle design thoughts
- [[experiments-list]] -- Personal experiments to run
- [[15-02-19-experiments-i-should-be-doing]] -- Experiments backlog
- [[20-03-09-potential-life-updates]] -- Life changes worth making
- [[20-02-21-my-lifestyle-creep]] -- Tracking lifestyle inflation

## Overcoming Obstacles

- [[20-01-07-overcoming-anxiety]] -- Dealing with anxiety
- [[18-10-12-how-to-overcome-approach-conversation-anxiety-at-brain]] -- Social anxiety specifically
- [[19-09-14-traps-to-avoid]] -- Common traps
- [[17-09-25-additional-weakness]] -- Understanding personal weaknesses
- [[17-09-26-additional-weakness-experiments]] -- Experimenting with addressing weaknesses
- [[20-04-12-ways-in-which-people-tend-to-be-asleep]] -- Common forms of unconsciousness
- [[18-11-02-transcendent-self-awareness]] -- Getting beyond the ego
- [[18-02-04-destroying-the-ego]] -- Ego dissolution as a tool

## Health & Longevity

- [[17-09-17-longevity-interventions]] -- Interventions for living longer
- [[19-06-15-obviously-correct-diet-interventions]] -- Diet interventions with clear evidence
- [[20-07-05-brain-healthy-foods-jeremy-doesnt-hate]] -- Brain-healthy foods that are actually palatable
- [[18-08-12-sharable-bucket-list]] -- Life goals and experiences