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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
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He said that “we have to shrink the world to fit our cognitive bandwidth.” If you go too fast, you overload your abilities, and they degrade. But when you practice moving at a speed that is compatible with human nature—and you build that ...more
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