Simple change I did in my Kindle that improved my focus

I believe I am the victim of my bad habits and bad attention span that I, Myself has created. But I don’t let it consume me, to get myself out of it, I started reading literature, any book that I find interesting.

Every time I would open Instagram, I would get reels of people recommending their books, which mostly I find interesting, regarding human psyche, novella and what not. I would save those reels and once I get time I would buy few of those books and read, but because of my bad attention span, I leave some of it after few pages.

This is not the issue, issue was after first read, I open the book, see how much it is remaining and read something else and don’t finish it, or don’t even try to read more. Even if I try to read, progress bar was always scaring me.

So I disabled every progress bar from the settings, after that small change, I literally had read the most in past 2 weeks combined in 2 hours.

Issue was I was focusing on the progress rather than actual reading, number and progress was haunting me every time. So I removed that distraction altogether to gain by my focus.

I’ll keep on changing small things in my life and documenting it. If you are fixing your attention span, getting disgustingly educated/well spoken, have interest in tech/AI. Do follow/subscribe for more such articles. <3

Originally published on Substack.