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Book cover for How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Nothing is harder to do than nothing. In a world where our value is determined by our productivity, many of us find our every last minute captured, optimized, or appropriated as a financial resource by the technologies we use daily.
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Cal Newport
“To simply wait and be bored has become a novel experience in modern life, but from the perspective of concentration training, it’s incredibly valuable.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport
“Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.”
Cal newport, So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

Vladimir Nabokov
“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
Vladimir Nabokov

Cal Newport
“Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Joanne Harris
“For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.”
Joanne Harris, Chocolat

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