How to cultivate children's concentration

Teachers often tell parents that their children do not listen carefully in class or have some bad behaviors. This makes parents very worried about whether their children’s learning or work will be affected in the process of growing up. Therefore, they start to cultivate their children’s concentration. In fact, cultivating concentration is not just about doing a lot of homework, but more about practicing in multiple aspects.

Method 1: Use the power of positive goals

What is the meaning of this method? When you set yourself a goal to consciously improve your attention and concentration, you will find that your ability to concentrate has developed and changed rapidly in a very short period of time.

Students need to make this progress through training. I have a goal, which is that from now on I will be better at concentrating than before. No matter what you do, once you get started, you can do it quickly without being disturbed. This is very important. For example, if you have this requirement for yourself today, I want to memorize the content of this lecture basically in one go with high concentration. When you have such a training goal, your attention will be highly focused and you will eliminate distractions.

Students know that in military terms, dispersing troops aimlessly and being surrounded and annihilated by the enemy one by one is the path to defeat. This is the same as in our study, work and career. If we scatter our energy aimlessly, we will always be a failure. Learning to concentrate your strength and focus whenever you need it is a genius quality of a successful person. The first way to develop this quality is to have such a goal.

Method 2: Cultivate interest in concentration

With this interest, you will set many training subjects, training methods, and training means for yourself. In a very short period of time, or even in just one summer, through self-training, you will find that you have the admirable ability to concentrate like the great scientists, thinkers, writers, politicians, and military strategists praised in the books.

Students can be relaxed and at ease when resting and playing, but once they start doing something, how to quickly concentrate their attention requires a talent. Just like a military strategist quickly concentrates his forces to annihilate the enemy at one point. This is military genius. We know that in military terms, in order to concentrate our forces without being detected by the enemy, to overcome various spatial, geographical, and temporal difficulties, to overcome the fatigue of the army, and to mobilize all aspects of factors, we need various specific means of concentrating our forces. Students need to concentrate their energy and attention, and also master a variety of methods. These are all worth discussing and are very interesting.

Method 3: Be confident in your ability to concentrate

Never be influenced by negative suggestions from yourself or others. Some parents have been saying this to their children since they were young: My child has difficulty concentrating. On many occasions, I have heard parents say: My child cannot concentrate in class. Some students may think so too. Don't think so, because this situation can be changed.

If you are good at concentrating now, then there must be something worth learning from those talented scientists, thinkers, entrepreneurs, and artists in this regard. You still have a gap as well as them, and you have to find a way to surpass them.

For the vast majority of students, as long as you have the confidence and believe that you can quickly improve your ability to concentrate and master the method of focusing, you can possess this quality. We are all normal and healthy people. As long as we are determined, not distracted and eliminate distractions, we can definitely achieve a high level of concentration. I hope that students will train themselves. After such training, a leap can occur.

Method 4: Be good at eliminating external interference

Train your ability to eliminate distractions by eliminating distractions. When Mao Zedong was young, in order to train his ability to concentrate, he set himself a training course: reading in the city gates and in places with heavy traffic. Why? To train my ability to resist interference. Students must know that some outstanding military strategists can still calmly and highly concentrate in the command center to judge the choice and orientation of strategies and tactics under heavy gunfire. The danger of life and death is hanging over your head, but you must be able to eliminate the interference of this threat and decide how to deploy military forces. This ability to resist environmental interference requires training.

I did this kind of training intentionally when I was your age. No matter how noisy the environment is, when I focus on the subject I want to read and study, I ignore everything around me. This can be trained successfully.