“sweet spot,” the overlap of three spheres: what you love to do, what you are very good at doing, and what advances the mission of the group or what someone will pay you to do.

An inability to sustain lengthy and full attention to a thought, a conversation, an image, a paragraph, a diagram, a sunset—or

The late Leston Havens, longtime professor of psychiatry at Harvard and one of the best teachers I ever had, once said to me, “You can do a whole psychotherapy centered around one question. ‘What do you want?’ Choosing which of those four words to put emphasis on—‘what,’ ‘do,’ ‘you,’ or ‘want’—takes the discussion in four completely different direc

EMOTION.

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

SCREEN SUCKING: How to Control Your Electronics So They Don’t Control You.

Since modern life induces ADT, you may wake up in the morning without it, but by 10 a.m. have developed many of the symptoms, which include the following:

ENERGY.

“Of course you do. But how would you feel if you had no career, even though you had instant access to all the backing you could ever need, but all you could come up with was ideas with no follow-through? I feel like a two-year-old. I can’t stick with anything.”