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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention
This also makes it easier to see why the strategies generally recommended for defeating distraction—digital detoxes, personal rules about when you’ll allow yourself to check your inbox, and so forth—rarely work, or at least not for long. They involve limiting your access to the things you use to assuage your urge toward distraction, and in the case... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
realized that I agree with the messages in the medium of the book. I think they are true. I think they encourage the best parts of human nature—that a life with lots of episodes of deep focus is a good life. It is why reading books nourishes me.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
this is only one form of attention that you need in order to function fully.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Our attention is sacred. It’s an act of worship in itself. An act of spiritual, mental, and emotional formation. When you give something your attention – a movie, a conversation, a project at work – you’re declaring it the most important thing in your life. It may sound dramatic, but at its core, it’s true. When you pay attention to something, you’... See more