With the invention of the smartphone, it’s easy to get into the habit of trying to do multiple things at once. However, you will pay the price if you are trying to learn a new skill while being distracted. Learning a new skill requires your brain to connect what you are seeing with the decision to do something with what you are actually doing. If you get interrupted in the middle of that process, you have to start over. While it might not feel like it, you are wasting your time. You can practice for 5 hours and learn less than if you practiced for one hour while being focused.
Being focused also allows you to pick up on little things that you wouldn’t otherwise notice. Are you making a slight timing mistake? Are you doing something inefficiently? Are you being inconsistent? If you aren’t focused, you will never notice those things and you won’t be able to make the proper adjustments. By being focused, you are able to learn those little details and you will be able to practice at a much higher level. Over time, you will get better at being able to notice those little things by yourself without your instructor having to point them out to you.
Being focused also helps you retain the information in your brain. If you are focused while practicing, you will remember it much easier and much faster than if you weren’t focused. This is one of the reasons that you feel like you are getting nowhere when you practice while being distracted. You aren’t retaining the information like you normally would. When you are focused, you are able to retain much more information much more quickly. The next time you practice, you will pick up where you left off instead of having to go back and review what you learned last time.
The final reason focus is so important is because it helps you enjoy what you are doing. If you are focused on your practice, you will feel like you are accomplishing something. That will help make your practice sessions feel much more rewarding. The best way to make sure you will stick with something is to make sure you enjoy it. This is why focus is so important. It will help make sure that you are able to enjoy the process of improving your skills. The more you enjoy the process, the more you will stick with it. The more you stick with it, the more you will improve.
In conclusion, focus isn’t just a matter of getting more done in a shorter amount of time. It’s a matter of being able to improve your skills at a much deeper level. By focusing, you are able to tie everything together. You are able to take what you see and turn it into an action. When you are able to do that, you will start to improve much more quickly. You have to do your best to eliminate distractions and protect your time. You can’t let others dictate how you practice.
