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15 Free Books on Focus and Concentration [PDF]

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These free focus and concentration books teach you how to train your attention and push back distraction. You can read them online or download them in PDF, with no sign-up.

Some are practical courses with daily exercises, while others explain how attention works in the brain.

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Books to Improve Concentration

These focus and concentration manuals go straight to practice. They give you daily exercises to steady your mind, strengthen your willpower and stay on one task.

  • The Power of Concentration

    A classic 1918 course in mental focus, with daily exercises to train your attention, control wandering thoughts and build lasting willpower. Short lessons you can start practicing today.

    Theron Q. Dumont

    Format: PDF 76 pages 1.5 MB
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  • Focus: A Simplicity Manifesto in the Age of Distraction

    Leo Babauta shows you how to unplug from constant notifications and reclaim your attention in a digital world. Simple habits to single-task, slow down and focus on what matters.

    Leo Babauta

    Format: PDF 121 pages 0.36 MB
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  • Concentration

    A compact 1920 guide that treats concentration as a skill anyone can build. Larson explains how to direct your mental energy to one task at a time and keep it there.

    Christian D. Larson

    Format: PDF 105 pages 3.57 MB
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  • Power of Will

    A full training course for your willpower, with exercises to sharpen attention, steady your mind and finish what you start. A self-discipline classic that sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

    Frank Channing Haddock

    Format: PDF 247 pages 1.02 MB
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  • Concentration: A Guide to Mental Mastery

    A step-by-step course in mental control, with graded exercises to quiet your thoughts and hold your attention on a single point. Ideal if you want a structured daily practice.

    Mouni Sadhu

    Format: PDF 117 pages 0.37 MB
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  • Activities to Improve Attention & Concentration

    A playful workbook with a checklist, games and simple strategies to help children build attention and stay on task. Great for parents and teachers.

    MyHomeSchoolMath

    Format: PDF 21 pages 0.91 MB
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Psychology of Attention Books

These books explain the psychology of attention, from classic cognitive psychology to modern research on the brain. You will also find a school guide on attention problems, useful if you are reading about ADHD.

  • The Psychology of Attention

    The founding book on how attention works. Ribot separates spontaneous from voluntary attention and explains why focusing on purpose takes effort, in a short and readable classic.

    Théodule Ribot

    Format: PDF 139 pages 5.93 MB
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  • Attention

    A complete survey of early experimental research on attention: its fluctuations, its limits, its link to memory and fatigue, and its role in everyday perception. A key reference for students of cognitive psychology.

    W. B. Pillsbury

    Format: PDF 373 pages 13.51 MB
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  • Lectures on the Elementary Psychology of Feeling and Attention

    Titchener lectures on how attention shapes what we notice and feel, with the laboratory evidence of his time. A cornerstone text in the history of experimental psychology.

    Edward B. Titchener

    Format: PDF 429 pages 6.98 MB
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  • Varieties of Attention and of Consciousness: Evidence From Neuropsychology

    What brain damage reveals about attention and awareness. Bartolomeo uses neuropsychology cases to show that attention comes in several forms, each with its own brain networks.

    Paolo Bartolomeo

    Format: PDF 34 pages 0.71 MB
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  • Attention Problems: Intervention and Resources

    A practical packet for teachers and school staff on attention problems in the classroom. It covers warning signs, intervention strategies and where to find more support.

    UCLA School Mental Health Project

    Format: PDF 81 pages 1.62 MB
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Concentration Meditation Books

In meditation, concentration is trained as a skill, one point at a time. These guides cover yoga's dharana and the Buddhist jhanas as practical attention training.

  • The Jhanas in Theravada Buddhist Meditation

    A clear map of the jhanas, the deep states of meditative concentration in Buddhism. Gunaratana explains how to prepare, overcome the hindrances and move through each level of absorption.

    Henepola Gunaratana

    Format: PDF 47 pages 0.33 MB
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  • Buddhist Meditation in Theory and Practice

    A thorough manual of calm and concentration meditation, from the forty classic meditation subjects to the kasina exercises and the stages of absorption. Revised edition with a modern layout.

    Paravahera Vajirañāṇa Mahāthera

    Format: PDF 419 pages 2.61 MB
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  • Mind: Its Mysteries and Control

    Sivananda explains how the mind works and how to tame it, with practical chapters on concentration, one-pointedness and controlling wandering thoughts. A yoga classic on mental discipline.

    Swami Sivananda

    Format: PDF 246 pages 0.64 MB
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  • Lectures on Raja Yoga

    Friendly class talks on Patanjali's path of concentration, from steadying the mind to dharana and the grades of inner focus. A gentle entry point to yoga's science of attention.

    Swami Chidananda

    Format: PDF 70 pages 0.25 MB
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Focus and concentration grow with practice, and every book here gives you a place to start.

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