“Attempting to focus with a phone on is much harder than focusing with a phone off. Pressing that off button is the ultimate neutral statement. Before we can focus on the right things, we must take our attention away from the wrong things. It’s also the easier part of the equation. Why? It can still be difficult to keep our minds trained on what matters, but not doing something is a discipline available to all of us. We can always turn off the phone or close that app, or ignore the calls from the person who sucks us into their drama. What we let in, we compete against.”