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“The marketplace doesn't care about your personal interest in slowing down. If you want more control over your schedule, you need something to offer in return. More often than not, your best source of leverage will be your own abilities.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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“Leonardo knew that the best way to look at something analytically is to draw it. Water fascinated him, so he drew”
― Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

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“Drawing “is tapping into a very old part of ourselves and moving us into the emotional and intuitive parts of the brain,”
― Susan Magsamen, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

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“Attention directs our consciousness to focus on some things and not others, and it is a fluid state that moves through varying degrees. “Attention is your ability to selectively focus and sustain focus,”
― Susan Magsamen, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

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“Learning comes in many forms: cognitive, emotional, embodied. There is explicit learning, where you actively seek knowledge, and implicit learning, where you passively take in experiences that change you. Many elements go into making experiences more salient for learning, among them novelty, humor, curiosity, attention level, creativity, motivation, environment, and the unique way your brain develops.”
― Susan Magsamen, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

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