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How To Improve Concentration Like a Monk | No Easy/One-Day Trick

Renuka Gavrani
5 min readDec 30, 2021

Growing up, my teachers used to yell at me for not concentrating in the class. In my defense, I will blame to my Monkey mind which keeps on jumping from one place to another. Hence, when my teachers were busy in teaching, I used to think about “how much fun it would be to play with my friends after class. I am sure it sounds familiar to you, doesn’t it?

However, now things have started getting worst for our generation due to various social media platforms and smart devices which are designed to distract us from our real goal. Your social media feed is customized by the algorithm so that you can find what you love and spend even more time on those platforms.

And among all this haphazard, our work suffers because even after keeping the phone away, you think about your phone/past/future rather than concentrating on what you are doing in the moment.

Although, we all know how important it is to stay concentrated but none of us know how to do it because guess what? Your and my parents/teachers asked us to concentrate but they never teach us how to do it.

Hence, there are 2 reasons why we are so bad at concentrating: -

1. We are not taught how to concentrate and

2. We don’t practice concentration: Most of the people go on YouTube, search about how to stay concentrated, learn about it and feel satisfy. You become good at concentration not by learning about it but why practicing it

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Renuka Gavrani
Renuka Gavrani

Written by Renuka Gavrani

I talk about slow & Intentional living - taking you closer to a happy life. I am a published author of the book 'The Art of Being Alone': https://a.co/d/531JIFq

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