Prompting with Mindfulness: How My Rhetorical Prompting Meth...

Prompting with Mindfulness: How My Rhetorical Prompting Method Encourages Deeper Thinking

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The goal of productive meditation is to take a period in which you’re occupied physically but not mentally—walking, jogging, driving, showering—and focus your attention on a single well-defined professional problem. Depending on your profession, this problem might be outlining an article, writing a talk, making progress on a proof, or attempting to

Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Reflecting on the nature of thought may not come naturally, but it can be trained with consistent practice. In the same way our muscles don’t bulk up without physical exercise, our minds won’t sharpen up without adequate mental training. Contemplative practices like meditation and prayer contribute to this type of project, but much of it starts by ... See more

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take a period in which you’re occupied physically but not mentally—walking, jogging, driving, showering—and focus your attention on a single well-defined professional problem.

Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

We need, in essence, to do just what the CRT teaches us: reflect, inhibit, and edit.

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The steps we need to take in order to check in with ourselves are not especially complicated. We must make time, as often as once a day, to lie very still on our own somewhere, probably in bed or maybe in the bath, to close our eyes and direct our attention toward one of many tangled or murky topics that deserve reflection: a partner, a work challe

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