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"The task is simple. All you must do is pierce the eye of the fish and my daughter Draupadi will marry you. " King Drupada told a large group of princes, kings, and people from the city that they had all come to see the wedding. Several tried but failed and left the podium. Then, in front of the crowd of a million onlookers, Arjuna stood on the podium, and he was successful. This simple story from the Mahabharata forces us to think about the question, "What did Arjuna do that others couldn't?" On any given day, most of our actions and decision-making are done on autopilot. This state of mind enables us to keep up with the demands of our lives. We don't deliberate about buying ketchup. We know everything about it; where it is, how to reach it, how much it will cost, etc. A simple task No deliberation needed, just like the fish in the challenge. We know there is a fish in the pond, and we must shoot an arrow at it. We overlook the challenges. The fish are in the water, and we are on land. The surface of the water behaves differently with light. The fish is tiny, and it is constantly swimming around the pond. We have only one chance to hit it in the eye, and it has a million chances to escape. How hard can it be?

However, making autopilot decisions can be detrimental. If we are not as deliberate as possible while making these decisions, we find ourselves paying the price of our laxity. Therefore, attention is our most limited and constrained resource. There are four kinds of work that needs our attention or focus: work that is necessary, unnecessary, distracting, or has a purpose. Among these, purposeful tasks are important. These are the tasks we're put on earth to do; the tasks we're most engaged in as we do them; the tasks with which we make the largest impact. For Arjuna, it was a purposeful task. When we choose to pay attention to something, it goes into our short-term memory, and our attentional space makes sure it stays active so we can keep working on it. Arjuna kept it active. His attentional space was completely aware of the entire conscious world. He managed that space properly, focusing on the fish and his underwater environment. He prevented attention overload by selectively permitting information into his attentional space. This put his brain in its most productive mode, called "hyperfocus." Hyperfocus is many things at once: it's deliberate, undistracted, and quick to refocus, and it leads us to become completely immersed in our work. The most important thing about hyperfocus is that you only let one productive or important task take up your attention.

Some may argue that Arjuna was a renowned archer and a great warrior. It was a habitual task for him, and thus he succeeded. From that perspective, there is a significant difference between habits and complex tasks. Let’s look at them one by one:

1. Habits: Habits are things we do without thinking about them. Habits include activities such as nail clipping, laundry, and grocery shopping.

2. Complex tasks: These are tasks that can be done well only with dedicated focus. Unlike habitual tasks, these occupy a larger amount of attentional space.

So, to be productive, we need to be able to focus on the right number of tasks at once. It was a complex task for Arjuna. A podium was situated about a 5-storey apartment's height from the pool below. The only option was to dive into the pond. The bow was heavy. One arrow was provided to every participant. One tiny fish, swimming around in the pond, and a piece of glass adjusted inside the pond so that the fish image is refracted onto it from the sunlight above. When light travels from air into water, it slows down, causing it to change direction slightly. This change of direction is called refraction, and therefore, Arjuna had to keep that factor in mind. He cannot breathe underwater, so he must hold his breath while he aims at the fish, but if he holds it too long, he might die.

This task is in no way a habitual task. It is an extremely complex task. These need to be performed with hyperfocus. The most important thing about hyperfocus is that you only let one productive or important task take up your attention. This is not negotiable because the most critical tasks, projects, and commitments benefit from every bit of extra attention. Thus, using hyperfocus on habitual tasks is a waste of time.

To hyperfocus, you must keep the following things in mind:

1.Focus your attention on something productive or meaningful.

2. Get rid of as many external and internal distractions as you can.

3. Focus on the chosen object of attention.

4.Continually draw your focus back to that one object of attention.

Just as Arjuna did, intention setting allows us to decide how we should spend our time; focusing our attention on that task gets it done efficiently. We often miss this point, be it in the office or at home, and thus we fail to achieve what we set out to achieve. So, we spend most of our hyperfocus on things we do all the time, and the harder tasks get left out. By doing this, we miss our goals, miss our deadlines, and don't finish important tasks. We can't pay attention to what we've chosen, so these tasks take up most of our minds. As a result, we forget about anniversaries, birthdays, picnics, and parties, and we spend less and less time with our families and friends. We can't give them time when they need it most because we spend most of our time trying to get rid of outside and inside distractions and use that extra time to do work that might not be needed. We spend more than 5 hours on a task that requires one hour in hyperfocus mode.

Employees around the world must learn from Arjuna that every task is different, and just because you are habitual at a task doesn’t make all tasks habitual. He very well understood the difference, and that is the reason why he succeeded. So, use hyperfocus wisely if you want to do a hard task well enough to get more rewards and recognition.?

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