## Highlights Given that ambiguity kills focus, there is a simple, powerful strategy to improve focus: whenever you find yourself tempted to procrastinate, initiate a distraction or switch to a more tractable task, just ask yourself one question: --- “What’s the next step?” --- Keep asking yourself that question until you get to a step that feels easy. --- The idea here is to keep breaking down frustrating, ambiguous tasks until you get to a task that is so straightforward that it shouldn’t cause you much of a problem. ---