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How to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
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Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
A life full of distractions is, at an individual level, diminished. When you are unable to pay sustained attention, you can't achieve the things you want to achieve
— Stolen Focus, Johann Hari
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“What I need, what I am trying to build, is — I coin this phrase by analogy to a memory palace — an attention cottage . ... When I sit down in a chair with a book in my lap, a notebook at my side, and no screens within reach or sight, I am dwelling in my attention cottage.
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