Most of today’s young people have never had that experience and, as a result, have no idea why it is important to seek out places for quiet study and contemplation.

We should all want to cultivate a thirty second mind that can absorb the essence of a problem and come up with insights based on deep fluency with how the world works. However, a different type of “thirty second mind” is far more common today. Nearly thirty years after the internet became mainstream, the majority of people in our society have almos... See more