How do you stay awake during meetings?

I feel you... some of us have short attention spans so it all comes down to every individual's natural makeup.

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Tip #1 - try taking coffee ahead of kickoff.

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Tip #2 - get enough sleep and wake up shortly before the meeting starts.

Naturally, it will be very difficult to return to sleep right after a previous nap.

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With the sleep factor out of the way, you can try recording the meeting and listen to/watch it later. This will remove the boring aspect from the live meeting.

Drink coffee, or have a bag of sweets handy. Sometimes I force myself to write notes to keep up with the conversation.