Sublime

There are two coaches who have had enormous impact on me in the last five years: Carolyn Coughlin at Cultivating Leadership and Jim Dethmer at Conscious Leadership.

In fact, you could design it with the opposite goal: to maximally respect people’s need for sustained attention, and to interrupt them as little as possible.

One of my favorite time-management essays is “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” by Paul Graham of Y Combinator fame. Give it a read.

All this frenetic digital interruption is “pulling our attention away from our thoughts,” and “suppressing your default mode network…. I think we’re almost in this constant stimulus-driven, stimulus-bound environment, moving from one distraction to the next.” If you don’t remove yourself from that, it will “suppress whatever train of thought you ha

Jane McGonigal, renowned game designer and Ph.D. in Performance

He said that “we have to shrink the world to fit our cognitive bandwidth.” If you go too fast, you overload your abilities, and they degrade. But when you practice moving at a speed that is compatible with human nature—and you build that into your daily life—you begin to train your attention and focus.

interviewed Johann Hari, bestselling author of Stolen Focus, a book about dwindling human attention spans, and he said to me:

articulating what you notice.