Ten Minute Artist - Daily Creative Joy

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📝 How to be distracted

📝 How to be distracted

A tool for focus.

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Adam Ming
Apr 09, 2022
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Ten Minute Artist - Daily Creative Joy
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📝 How to be distracted
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Last week I wrote about distraction being a place we go to escape:

Adam's Notes
What Distractions Are
PARADIGM SHIFT: The overarching point is that what we think of as “distractions”, aren’t the ultimate causes of us being distracted. They’re the places we go to seek relief from the discomfort of confronting limitation. - Oliver Burkman, Four Thousand Weeks…
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3 years ago · 5 likes · Adam Ming

📝Today instead of forcing myself to be distraction free, I allowed myself one distraction:

On a new notepad page, I wrote the title focus pad. Whenever I felt the urge to stray from my work I allowed myself to be distracted with this focus pad.

Each 2 hour work section, I started a new page. A fresh new place to go to be distracted, or capture my distractions.

I had a very productive day with four two hour sessions of deep work (normally I manage 2 a day) and spend the rest of my studio time in shallow work, so the focus pad has doubled my deep work output!

I’ll try it for a week and let you know how it goes.

Before you go,

I’ve a couple of quick things to share:

One of the members of my critique group; Chantell Holt has started a newsletter; and if you like this thing; I’m sure you’ll enjoy hers too; here’s a sample:

Chantelle’s Studio
Why I advocate drawing TYRES!?!
Here’s one of my recent characters… Timmy does train impressions on his nose flute! About a month ago, drawing that recorder would have been a nightmare. I would have spent 20 minutes trying to find a recorder at exactly the right angle to pop into his left nostril. But no more…
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3 years ago · 1 like · Chantelle Holt

Chantell is also starting a book club, for aspiring children’s writers. It might be worth while mentioning that she’s also an English Lit Lecturer; if you’re interested in joining the book club; DM her on IG.

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Lastly if you like the newsletter I hope you’ll consider the subscription; it will let me spend a little more time refining it. (I’m sure there’s a button somewhere to do that)

If you are subscribed; Thank you; I hope you’re enjoying the daily sketchbook prompts, I hope to collect them into a book one day :)

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