Live Workshop — 60 Minutes
The Focus Advantage
Start Studying in 2 Minutes — Without Willpower. Why you can't sit down and begin, and the system that makes starting automatic.
Why Focus?
Focus Isn't a Personality Trait. It's a Design Problem
"I just can't get started" is the single most common thing students tell us — and the one problem more revision tips never touch. The student who's 40 minutes deep by 4:10pm doesn't have more discipline than you. They've removed the decision to start entirely. This workshop fixes it in 60 minutes.
Outcomes
By the End You'll Know
- Why you can't get started — and why it was never laziness or a personality flaw
- The real cost of distraction — dopamine, novelty-seeking, and the 23-minute refocus penalty
- The S.T.A.R.T. system — Stage, Trigger, Activate, Repeat, Track — built live for your subjects and your space
- The laptop paradox solved — browser blockers, single-tab discipline, notification schedules
- A live Distraction Stress Test — watch focus break and rebuild on screen, in real time
- Your Start Contract — one visible commitment, filled in before you leave
The Core Framework
The S.T.A.R.T. System
The five-step framework at the core of the workshop. You build your own version live — for your subjects, your space, and your worst habits.
Workshop Structure
60 Minutes. Zero Fluff.
Tight, high-energy, and impossible to scroll past. No filler. No generic advice.
The student who "means to" start at 4pm and is still on their phone at 5:30 — versus the one who's 40 minutes deep by 4:10. Same brain, same phone, same homework. Different system.
We reframe focus as an environment + trigger design problem, not a personality trait you were born without. Willpower is finite and loudest exactly when you're tired — so we stop relying on it entirely.
Dopamine and novelty-seeking: why a notification is neurologically louder than a textbook. The switch cost: how task-switching taxes your working memory for minutes, not seconds.
Then the laptop paradox — the device you need for homework is the device that ruins it, running two incompatible neural modes: single-tasking and browsing mode.
The framework at the core of the workshop: Stage · Trigger · Activate · Repeat · Track. You build your own version live — for your subjects, your space, and your worst habits.
The Distraction Stress Test: a real focused task performed live on screen with a planted distraction — narrated in real time, then reset using one S.T.A.R.T. technique.
Watching focus break and rebuild on screen is the moment it clicks. That's the whole workshop in seven minutes.
The music question, answered properly: lyrics vs. instrumental, familiar vs. novel — when it helps and when it's just another distraction in disguise.
Plus the laptop toolkit: browser blockers, single-tab discipline, notification schedules — a concrete setup for the machine your schoolwork actually runs on.
You fill in your Start Contract before you leave — one visible commitment, made while the material is fresh.
Contracts get filled in. Vague intentions don't.
Included
Everything You Need
Event Workbook
Follow-along pages for every section of the workshop — including your Start Contract. Online + printable versions.
Audit + Cheat Sheet
The Distraction Audit Worksheet (tag every interruption Remove / Reduce / Redirect) plus the whole S.T.A.R.T. system on one printable page for your wall.
Lifetime Replay
Lifetime access to the recording. Rewatch whenever a new term needs a reset.
Secure Your Seat
Make Starting Automatic
Join the live workshop and build your S.T.A.R.T. system before term starts. One ticket covers a whole household — parents, sit in alongside.
Reserve My Place — £9.99Secure checkout · Lifetime replay access · Instant access to the attendee portal
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