This tip comes in handy when you have to concentrate while looking at figures or patterns. Confront the pattern or figure as if it is the first and last time you will be looking at it. Create this sense of self urgency and your concentration will involuntarily go up in learning that fact. It is the normal human tendency to procrastinate and put off difficult things for later. This frame of mind is not conducive in improving your levels of concentration, even if you want to.

Please refer to the book for more details on this activity.