Attention, Distraction, and Your Responsibility
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Attention, Distraction, and Your Responsibility
Why your attention keeps slipping away (and how to get it back)
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If your attention is constantly managed by other people, how can it develop? How do you learn what fascinates you? How do you find your intrinsic motives, the ones that are so important to developing attention?
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Philosophers have been worrying about distraction at least since the time of the ancient Greeks, who saw it less as a matter of external interruptions and more as a question of character—a systematic inner failure to use one’s time on what one claimed to value the most. Their reason for treating distraction so seriously was straightforward, and... See more