How Can Developers Build Focus?

What practical strategies help you build and maintain focus as a developer? How have they impacted your work and life?


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[Michael Tharrington]

Meditation is a really helpful practice for improving focus. If you can learn to cut out the noise of your own mind and be in the present moment, it'll help your focus immensely.

It takes practice and some days can be harder than others, but the more you do it, the quicker you'll be able to turn it on and center yourself!

[Dev Geos]

Real with baduajin practice

[Isaac Klutse]

1. Find a quite place
2. Close all external tabs that won't be needed in the coding section.
3. Get resources like water and coffee if you like.
4. Partition time and include breaks to refresh the brain.

[Michael Tharrington]

Great practical advice, Isaac.

[sc0v0ne]

Very good !!!

[sc0v0ne]

1. Start the day by playing a sport. Running, swimming or mountain biking.
2. Eat a good breakfast, full of proteins and light carbohydrates.
3. Drink Coffee.
4. Drink Coffee.
5. Drink Coffee.
6. Start a Flavor Trip video with upbeat music.

All ready. We begin the work.

[Jeremy Friesen]

My text editor for coding has one window; no tabs; no side panel with directory structure.

I manually turn on and off auto-completion tools (such as Copilot). Basically, remove as many possible distractions from my desired focal point.

From that, make sure I can move quickly from conceptual point to point; such as jumping between implementation and test, to definition, to different "unrelated" file.

[Nathan S.R.]

Here are 12 Simple ways to stay focused and increase productivity :

[Lymah]

Thanks for sharing

[Dev Geos]

I listen music : rap, classic or instrumentals.
Baduajin is very good when you can practice every morning.
(Sorry for my bad english)

[kevinrawal]

by developing 😁