Finding it hard to concentrate? How to retrain your frazzled brain and regain your focus  

These simple exercises will help you get your attention back

Many people have found it particularly tough to focus during the pandemic. Picture: Pexels

Picture your day before you started to read this article. What did you do? 

In every single moment – getting out of bed, turning on a tap, flicking the kettle switch – your brain was blasted with information. Each second, the eyes will give the brain the equivalent of 10m bits (binary digits) of data. The ears will take in an orchestra of sound waves. Then there’s our thoughts: the average person, researchers estimate, will have more than 6,000 a day. To get anything done, we have to filter out most of this data. We have to focus.