Can you make yourself hyperfocus? | Experts Answer

Can you make yourself hyperfocus? Here’s what a licensed psychologist has to say.

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[chrisb.]

I do hyper focus. It's like time is erased completely.

[narelleellis]

Does anyone else have to set reminders to eat & drink when you are hyper focused on something. Thank you for you’re channel, it helps us & it helps others understand ADHD better.

[teamcyeborg]

I wish I could make myself _regular_ focus

[jayknight]

i can make myself hyperfocus on video games lol. if we could hyper focus on anything that would be to over powered. God had to nerf us.

[BohemianAnthem]

I cannot control it in the slightest.
Sometimes I just wish I wouldnt hiperfocus at all.
Because I get hiperfocused that sometimes I cant sleep thinking about a particular thing so I just step into this sinkhole of information that consumes hours and hours and hours of my life.
The more im into the topic, the more I want to know about it.

It gets obsessive and even all consuming at times.

[nicholasmyslinski]

It’s possible to hyper focus on non-interest related things by using incorporating them into bigger things, I, like most people, enjoy having a schedule to follow, and when that schedule is followed and my time is used properly, I can hyper focus on my work, however; if my schedule gets broken, there’s almost no way to make me focus again.

[arielabraham]

I got lucky. I hyperfocus on math, specifically calculus and trig. It’s made my major in engineering bearable 😅 that being said, I still struggle to do the other work that doesn’t involve straight math, lol.

[MoXenArtCreations]

Hyperfocus can be achieved through other means... but they are not without their own drawback.

-limited environment and stimulation
-healthy sleep habits
-caffeine(in moderation, only works for people that don't already drink it daily or have low tolerance)
-reframing(like gamifying a workload)
-frequent short stimulation-free breaks(emphasise on short)

Improving sleep and forcing yourself to meet the absolute boredom and bask in it in increments daily(like staring at the wall while continuously reminding yourself to only stare at the wall for a good 5 minutes) are proven key factors that improve focus over time.

[ElohiSilverEarthVentures]

ya no. thats why its a problem and our hyper focus is usually on something thats very much NOT what we're really really supposed to be doing or focused on like instead of packaging and shipping out 10 ebay sales that needed to be shipped out last week, we have 5 thousand diy hamster toys piled up on the floor.

[ashefauxe]

You're not making yourself 'hyperfocus' you just aren't aware they're you're locked in.

[marabarnes]

But if yoou do have some level of interest, a high amount of caffeine can force you into a hyperfocus. Getting it to latch onto the right activity is the problem

[a.m.n]

Yup cause if I could make myself do it I’d hyper focus on cleaning! 😂

[gamedirection]

As a 15 year game designer in the industry my whole job is to figure out how to trigger hyperfixation in activities.

It aint easy, and im only successful every few years. But when my philosophy is to leverage those focused moments to challenge the users brain with real world learning disguise as gameplay. Botany in your game for example, "collect all the plants", we try to use as accurate in world plant names, and places you might actually find them. Reinforcement learning.
Using math, or art in some games.

It may not help you with your HW or help you study for your quiz but hopefully its not entirely brain rot either is my personal goal.

Now disguising it for corporate approval is the real art.