‘the idle mind is the devil’s workshop’… when you lose focus, your mind tends to fix on what could be wrong with your life instead of what’s right.” A workday driven by the shallow, from a neurological perspective, is likely to be a draining and upsetting day, even if most of the shallow things that capture your attention seem harmless or fun.

we have to develop individual skills to resist the part inside all of us that succumbs to these distractions.

Two: I have changed the way I respond to my own sense of distraction.