Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention And How to Think Deeply Again

if you only break away from distraction into rest—if you don’t replace it with a positive goal you are striving toward—you will always be pulled back to distraction sooner or later.

It undermines our capacity for responding to anything.

All this frenetic digital interruption is “pulling our attention away from our thoughts,” and “suppressing your default mode network…. I think we’re almost in this constant stimulus-driven, stimulus-bound environment, moving from one distraction to the next.” If you don’t remove yourself from that, it will “suppress whatever train of thought you ha