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Two skills, one direction.
“[T]he faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will.”
Resolved practises two skills: bringing your attention back to what you want, and doing what you said you'd do. Progress keeps going when it's felt, and it's felt when what you expect matches what you can do, and you can see what you did.
Two skills, one direction
IllustrationSteering your attentionBring it back to what you want
Keeping your wordSay what you'll do. Do it.
Steering by your own aimsWhere practising both leads
Can attention be trained?
A little, says the evidence.
MindfulnessLimited gains in attention, in healthy adults.[14]
Against a fair comparisonNo more than active comparison groups got.[15]
Since trained attention carries over little, practise on the real thing: what you actually want, every night.
If you have ADHD
Planning and working memory are harder with ADHD, on average.[12] Resolved isn't a treatment. It takes the load out of your head:
- What you wantstays in view
- Ideaswait in Next, not in your memory
- Tomorrowis decided the night before
- Each full clear, or nottests your guess about the day
Six short chapters
Each section is a finding, a picture, and what to do. No study of Resolved itself exists: it's built on this research, not proven by it.
1. The feelingWhy feeling behind is mostly about what you expected, and what to expect instead.2. Steering attentionWhat keeps things from being lost, what lets them rest, and why some should expire.3. Keeping your wordHow to size a promise you'll keep, and how keeping it shows you what you can do.4. Misses and letting goWhy a miss is a question about the plan, not about you. And how to know your rate.5. Steering is yoursWhy your own reasons, and honest answers, keep it working.6. The skillHow it adds up to one skill, and the whole method, step by step.ReferenceWhat the app asks and when, the sphere's tiers, scope, and the sources.