Attention, Distraction, and Your Responsibility

a life full of distractions is, at an individual level, diminished.

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?

Four: I acted on what I learned about the importance of mind-wandering.

Focusing on what’s right in front of you, he told me, gives you “some of the raw material that has to be digested, but at some point, you need to stand back from that.”