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What Monks Can Teach Us About Paying Attention
A distracted mind will divide your attention every minute, every hour, every day.
Patrick McKeown • Anxiety Free: Stop worrying and quieten your mind - Featuring the Buteyko Breathing Method and Mindfulness
Secondly, there is a value in leaving behind your other concerns and narrowing down your attention to one thing,
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
the bouncer has to work “way harder” to keep out distractions. He’s exhausted. And so a lot more is fighting its way past him, into your mind—interfering with the flow of your thoughts.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
The proper response to this situation, we’re often told today, is to render ourselves indistractible in the face of interruptions: to learn the secrets of “relentless focus”—usually involving meditation, web-blocking apps, expensive noise-canceling headphones, and more meditation—so as to win the attentional struggle once and for all. But this is a... See more