Staying Alert in Meetings

Struggling to stay awake in meetings? Suffering from powerpoint exhaustion?

Help is at hand thanks to some new research. Biofeedback training can boost concentration power describes how people can be trained to notice when they are losing concentration and bring them back into a more effective state.

In the experiments they used a bio-feedback mechanism based on sensors and somebody shouting at you - sounds pretty effective to me. The point was that over time the individuals stopped needing the stimulus and could do it themselves. So the summary is that you need to train yourself to spot boredom setting in and bring yourself back. In time it should get easier but I can imagine this being a fairly hard slog to get there.