Your Environment Is Training You to Stay Distracted

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Just look and pay attention to the environment around you real quick, because today we're talking about distraction. We're talking about distraction, but not just the distraction itself. We're talking about the environment that keeps creating it. The environment that keeps creating the distraction. Yeah, here's the truth. Your environment is training you to stay distracted. Did you hear me? Salute the old school instantly, Old school instantly? Did you hear me the environment? Your environment is training you to stay distracted. That's the uncomfortable part about this conversation is that your current environment is training you to stay distracted. That is extremely uncomfortable. Most people think distraction is just a discipline problem. It's not just a discipline problem. Sometimes a lot of times the problem is your phone is always nearby. You feel me like your phone is always near by, Your notifications are always active, your space is cluttered, your attention is constantly exposed, and eventually your brain adapts to the chaos. Like we've talked about, you. Feel me Old school whinstantly said, right now, you're right, man, I can't even talk. I can't even tell you about my space. That's why I can sit on here and come in here and sit on this and sit on his soapbox and tell you because I'm going through it. Eventually, your brain adapts to chaos. You understand what I'm saying. Not focus. So this morning we're talking about environmental conditioning. We're talking about environmental conditioning. Yeah, entronmental conditioning, because your surroundings shape your behavior. More than you realize. Let's get it one. So I've hustled harder than the moment. I'm a feast on these streets. Got a revolver I told for these niggas trying to take me off the block where I pointed up. Daily sit Dailey's out. The bottle is smoke. Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, for our snipers the homy for our sniper in the building. What's up with a snipe? Salute to you, Salute to you? All right, man? So I guess if I had to pick a place to start, if I absolutely you twisted my arm and made me pick a place to start. Uh, let's start here. Your environment teaches your brain what to expect every day. Your environment teaches your brain what to expect every day. If your space is noisy, then your attention becomes reactive. If your space is cluttered, then your thinking becomes fragmented. And if distractions are always visible, then your focus constantly gets pulled away. Here's the reality. Here's the reality. Your environment is never, ever, ever neutral. Your environment is never neutral. It's either supporting your focus or competing against it. But it's never neutral. And most people are trying to build discipline. Those that are actually trying to build discipline. Most of us are building discipline inside environments designed for interruption. Let me personalize it so you, when you decide that you're going to build your discipline, you are trying to build your discipline inside of an environment that is designed for interruption. When we sit down at our workspace, your phone is next to your laptop. My phones. I have two phones right here, right under my camera. You feel me, just got two notifications. One of them you probably just are vibrate. So your phone next to your laptop. You got ten tabs open on your computer. I got one, two, three, four, five, six, probably I probably got eight right now, you understand what I'm saying, ten tabs open. TV's running in the background. I always have something running. I have a podcast, I have YouTube, I have something running in the background. Always notifications every few minutes. Yeah, then you say I can't focus, man, I just can't focus. Man, I'm trying. It's hard to lock in. Man, I ain't been able to lock in. I say it all the time, you feel me, I wish, I wish My brother Thomas, if you've seen you, was in here. It's my That's my constant phrase when I'm talking to him, like, man, man, I'm having a hard time locking in. Bro having a hard time lock and in. Of course, min of course I'm not gonna be able to lock in. Your environment trains you not to, you feel me, your environment, based on everything that we just said and what we just walked through, your environment is training you. Not to lock in. You're not gonna lock in, man, your environment is training you not to lock in. That's easy work. That's easy work. Let's talk about what distractions actually cost, because the damage from distractions isn't always obvious. Every interruption forces your brain to restart, and restarting takes energy. Restarting takes energy. Some of y'all woke up mentally drained. You can put you can put a cup in the you can give me my theme emoji. If you woke up already drained, you woke up, you woke up feeling mentally tired, already before the day even starts. Yeah, haven't done any meaning for work yet, and already you mentally drained. Saluted Joe. Salute to Lallah. I appreciate, I appreciate my sisters to being honest. You feel me, I'm I'm literally drained. Salute the tivy two in the building. What's up with the tivy two? Already mentally tired? Now, no meaning for work done? As a gap, Constant distractions create mental fatigue, slower thinking, reduced quality of your output, and shallow attention. Shallow attention. Here's the truth. Your brain performs better in low distraction conditions. I don't even you feel me. I'm not even like like I need a dug. I need a dub. Maybe I should record myself saying Duhlde said her dreams. Her dreams sometimes are dreams, drainer. I've had them two two five box and came in with the new day salute. Family. Big Dad says, yesterday, I did your brain performs better in low distraction conditions. Be about a forest. What's up with you, hommy, I'll see you low distraction conditions. That's where deep work happens. You feel me when you got the deep work happens in low distraction environments, you feel me. Be about a farmacist has been working on the software in processes. You understand what I'm saying. When he had to get in there and do the deep work, it was in a low distraction condition. I'm telling you the times when I have to go in and I have to go do deep work, have to remove myself and I have to go into low distraction conditions, you feel me and I gotta get in there. I get in there, get in there. I gotta get in there. That's where the low distraction conditions is where deep work happens. That's where learning improves, that's where creativity grows. That's where your presence increases. And when I say presence, I'm talking about your presence with regard to the task at hand. You feel me. Yeah, your presence increases. But most people never stay focused long enough to experience deep concentration anymore. Let me, let me stop that. Your ass don't stay focused long enough to experience deep concentration anymore, You feel me, because distractions keep resetting your attention, and over time, your mind starts expecting interruption, it starts expecting, it starts anticipating interruption, and then that becomes your normal. The expectation of interruption becomes your normal. You go to work expecting telephone calls, you expect emails, you expect impromptu meanings. You expect to not get. Anything done because you understand that you are going to have interruptions to your day. Now let's go deeper, because your devices are shaping your behavior. Phones, apps, notification, and his messages. Everything is competing for your attention, all at the same time. And most people stay permanently accessible. You stay permanently accessible, always available, always reacting, always checking something. You feel me when my father before my father passed away. And my father passed away two thousand and that, my daddy didn't have a cell phone. My daddy didn't have a cell phone. He had like a minute phone that he never kept on, and it was like in the arm rest of his car. You feel me, And sometimes it was minutes on that motherfucker. Sometimes it wasn't. My daddy wasn't on that, man, My daddy wasn't on that. You feel me, man, I miss them old niggas. Man, my daddy wasn't on that. He said, Man, I don't need no phone. You feel me my handa. The world been surviving all this time with our phones. The world has has has been in constant progressive communication with our cell phones all this time. I don't need no damn phone, always available, always reacting, always checking something everybody. Every time. All you see is people walking around with their phones. It's all you see, phone in hand. Here's the dangerous part, though. Constant access destroys intentional focus. That's a bar, that's the bar. Where is none of the great when we need her. Constant access destroys intentional focus. I should shut the show down because every notification teaches your brain to react immediately and eventually you use the ability to stay mentally still. And that's where a lot of us are right now, that's where you are. You have lost your ability to stay mentally still, you feel me. You have lost your ability to stay mentally still. Be still? Remember that growing up? Still? I say that to my kids. Now, be still, I'll be like, man, be still, sit down, Just unnecessary movement, man, Just. Be still, Yeah, be still, be still. You have lost your ability to stay mentally still, and that's why people struggle to read deeply now, you feel me. Remember we used to be able to sit and read, read, read, read. Now people can't uh uh huh uh. You can't read deeply. People don't read deeply people, and when they do read deeply, it's not for long. Hence the Mini Manyo, The one hour Book that will change the way you watch the clock, written by yours truly, Junior the Truth, available at www dot the minutemanyo dot com. You feel me, had to write a book that you can read in an hour because people are not gonna, not gonna No, they're not gonna get it. They're not gonna they're not gonna they're not gonna get it. People struggle to read deeply. Now you feel me, think deeply, rest deeply. Nah, Digital overloads. Digital overload keeps our, keep keeps the nervous system stimulated. Slew to my brother storre you be man, what's up? What you brought? Salute to you. Digital overload keeps the nervous system stimulated. Man, always active, always scanning, never settling down like never settling. Yeah, all right, here's the good news, man, give you some news you can use. Here's the good news. When you change the environment, because you're in complete control, you're in complete control. Awareness gives you control. You feel me. Awareness gives you control. That control creates options. You feel me. It's the hope. Ah, man, if I could. Really just make it simple man like, awareness gives you control and awareness and control creates options. The whole kid in kaboodle when it comes to self mastery, that's it. That's the whole kit. You feel me, that's the whole kit. That is the entire kit. Awareness. Here's the good news. When you change your environment, you change the behavior that's powerful. A low distraction environment improves your focus, your work quality, your emotional control, your learning, your relationships, your presence, you feel me. You wonder why I was just talking to Stormy b Men yesterday when we were talking about men and how men have become so emotional. You understand what I'm saying, extremely emotional, heightened, heightened levels of emotion when it comes to events and circumstances that are outside of their control. You feel me. Why is that that's tied directly to the environment. That's tied directly to the distractions, that's tied directly to checking your notifications every few minutes, That's tied directly to this state of impulsivity that we're in right now. It's like we're in this trends of impulsivity. Yeah, but when you factor in low distraction environments, that's going to improve your focus. It's going to improve your work quality, it's going to improve your emotional control, it's going to improve learning, it's going to improve your relationships, it's going to improve your presence because your attention finally has room to settle, It has room to settle, and once your mind settles. She I'm trying not to cuss in this motherfucking once your mind settles, King Vonnie says, environment includes people, places, and things. Apps fucking loutely. I know I'm trying not to cuss. But once your mind settles, man, something changes, like something shifts. You think more clearly, you listen better, you execute more deeply. You become more present. Not because you suddenly became disciplined, but because your environment stopped fighting your focus. Your environment stopped fighting your focus, and that's the shift. The shift is to get your environment to stop fighting your focus. Salut to my brother, my heart Nation Sports Podcast in a building, saluting my brother p Felix. Now that is in a building. What's up with you, bro? That's the shift, getting your environment to stop fighting your focus. Yeah, all right, let's make this practical. You know I always got to give it to you. I give it to you straight. You feel me. Making it practical. Number one, create a dedicated focused space. You feel me, Even just one corner matters. Train your brain to associate the space with focus. You understand what I'm saying. So I'm gonna age myself, Stormy be man. Remember remember Grandma big Mama, Nanny's what I call her. Remember your grandmother, she had that room, she had that room in there, she had that room in the house with the with the white couch, and if the couch wasn't white, it had the it had the plastic on it. You feel me. She had that one room in the house. Didn't nobody sit in that room? Nobody went in that room. Nobody went in that space, you feel me. It was typically you know, that room, you had usually pictures of the family. You understand what I'm talking about, might have had might have had pictures of might have had a picture of Jesus. You feel me, white Jesus at that but you might have had a picture of Jesus in there, pictures of you know, some of the elders, people that have gone on the glory. Understand I'm talking about, you feel me. My grandmama had a picture of Martin Luther the caing junior. Try to picture of Martin Luther the King. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Marquis Johnson tuning in over on Facebook, salu homie, I appreciate you. Yeah, Martin Luther the King Jr. You gotta it was a it was a space that you just couldn't go in, you feel me. You got to create a dedicated, focused space. That's step one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Stormy v Men said that it was JFK and RFK in his grandmama's room. I think he's saying, we had that room. Nobody went and congregated in that room. Few and far between, like maybe like the insurance man when he came to see it up there. People who was you know, wasn't coming beyond the threshold into the house. You feel me could sit up in the front room. Number two, Remove digital triggers, put your phone away, phone out of sight, notification, silence tabs. Minimize what if somebody's looking for me? God damn it, they'll find you when you come out of your dedicated focus. Minimize your tabs. One of the only tab that should be open is the tab that that that that that that you're actively working on. Strummy b man said that. He said, a living room furniture covered in plastic. You don't hear me though. You don't hear me though. That good good cover that thick ass plastic. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Salute to m MJ's total health and wellness. Ah, that was you are on the pulling double duty. That was you all on the book. Salu hommy. Yeah, remove did you triggers? Put your phones away? Phoenix New Net says putting your phones away. Its pivotal. When Phelix go to make some art and go to drawing, he got to put his phone up. You feel me, because he's gonna get some notifications, especially for me. Tabs minimize, reduce attention pools, reduce attention pools. Number three is protect focused windows, time block focused sessions. Time block focused sessions. Treat them like appointments. No interruptions, absolutely, no interruptions. Number four is communicate your boundaries. You feel me. Communicate your boundaries, Let people know when you're unavailable, Let people know when you're unavailable, and protect your attention intentionally. Protect your attention intentionally. Step five is reduce sensory noise. Reduce sensory noise, clutter, noise, visual overload, Simplify the environment, simplify your dedicated workspace, like simplify your environment. Yeah all right, man, I gotta go now, way over twenty five minutes, so let's get out of here. Because this conversation matters. Man. Your environment shapes your habits. Your habits shape your attention, and your attention shapes your life. And I'm gonna tell you the honest truth. The thing I know and the thing I know about you is you're not producing what you can produce. You're not producing what you can produce, and that's why you're here. That's why we connect because you are not producing what you can produce, but you have a desire to produce it, and that's why you hear. And my whole purpose is to give you the best that I got, like Anita, to help you produce what it is that you're trying to produce. That's my whole purpose. That's why I'm here. That's the whole purpose the movement, the whole purpose of the platform, the whole purpose of me telling you to turn your concentration and turn your attention inward in order to get out of you what you need to navigate your way towards your purpose. And your attention shapes your life. So if your environment constantly trains distraction, eventually distraction becomes your default setting. But once you create conditions that support your focus, everything changes. Big Dad said, guilty, Thomas. If you've seen in the building, what's up with you, bro? Everything changes. Yeah, distraction becomes your default setting, but once you create conditions that support focus, everything changes. There's not overnight, but it's got to be consistently consistently. So here's the question, and you answer that shit honestly to yourself, even if you don't share. Does your environment? I kind of want to put y'all on a hot plate and have y'all have y'all answered in the chat so that we can hold ourselves accountable, because the answer for me, I'm okay, I'm gonna ask you. Does your environment protect your attention or compete against it? Currently? Today May fourteenth, twenty twenty six. Does your environment protect your attention or compete against it? My environment currently competes against my attention. It competes It is totally antagonistic of my focus and my attention. It does not protect my attention. It competes against my focus. My current environment does yes, my current workspaces yes yes. The truth is you can't build focused inside chaos. Yeah yeah. King Vonney said it protects thriving. What Joe says it protects for Al Sniper says a little bit of both. That means for Al Sniper's bullshit ting. You feel me, that's what you are, bully shit team. It can't be both, bro, we can't have it both ways. The same Burger King you can't have it your way. It either supports it or it competes mine. Absolutely competing, abs of fing lotly competing. A lot of these said, I would say protects for me. My one close Chicago friend is a West Sider. She's always telling me to focus on the money. They love making money. Jeff sparks a little homie's up with you. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. My brother storm me be Man said, but I can't receive this wisdom if my phone is off. Gotta choose wisely facts with tax Salute man, Salute to you all. Man. This is the Black Coffee club man around here. We don't just work on discipline, man, we design better conditions for it. Salute to the family. Thank y'all so much, man for taking the time to tune in. 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