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The world we currently live in is out to suck our attention.
How do you stay focused and do any kind of deep-thinking then?
Here’s some tips summarized by “A Book a Week”, from the book, Stolen Focus: Why you can’t pay attention and how to think deeply again, by Johann Hari:
- Principle #1: Acknowledge the external theft of focus
- Principle #2: Cultivate high-quality distractions
- Principle #3: Simplify for clarity
Read the detailed summary plus some interesting curated quotes from the book here.
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