Member Reviews
I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This was a fascinating and much needed book.
The concept of focused day dreaming as a solution to attention deficits and focus difficulties is an interesting idea, but I was hoping for a little more diversity in the concepts elaborated as an answer to those problems. This is a nice book, but it feels to me like it might have been better in a shorter form - maybe in an essay format.
This was fantastic! This day and age offers so many distractions that it is difficult to focus on anything for an extended period of time. This was a great read, as it offered actual practical techniques and tips to try to maintain deeper focus.
We all need to find clarity, creativity, and resilience! I am constantly feeling overwhelmed in a daily routine that I am so used to. I think the key to this book is understanding the thought process behind achievable results. It is nice to be ambitious but if we are setting ourselves up for failure, were aren't going to get far.
Focus is definitely one of my biggest struggles - everyday... even when i am doing things i want to do and enjoy, i keep getting distracted or i go off into day dreaming mode and then feel guilty about it - well, this book talks about embracing this instead and using it to my advantage.
well-written and practical tips and ideas, made for an interesting read, and one that also had my inner child smiling.
The Focus Fix is a book about the power of day dreaming. It's an interesting concept - we should all spend more time letting our minds wander and that will help us find better solutions to the challenges in our lives. Focused day dreaming is creative problem solving.
There is also some practical advice in the book, like reducing the number of apps you use to make it easier to stay on target without having to switch so much.
The book comes across as well-researched but it's really only about this one single way of addressing focus - the power of day dreaming. There is lots of practical advice on how to get started with day dreaming in a productive way, and plenty of research to back up the concept, but if you are looking for a book with lots of different types of advice about how to manage your time or deal with constantly being pulled in all directions, be aware that this book presents only the one solution.
It's well-written, easy to read, convincing and practical, so if you do want to give your brain time to recuperate from all the video calls, this book will definitely help you achieve the downtime (and therefore the problem-solving focus) that you have been looking for.
I received an eARC from Netgalley - thank you!