By Diana Baur
Everything that’s worthwhile requires focus. Focus is hard today, because we have so many things competing for our attention. Even if we are all alone, standing perfectly still, we know full well that text messages and emails are arriving, urging us to stop what we’re doing and look. And once we’ve looked we’ve lost something – and that something is focus on the thing we were doing first.
We don’t necessarily see this redirecting of our energy as a negative. Because we live in a world that thrives on interruption, no one is likely to call you on checking your iphone during a conversation. No one will be surprised if you ask to be excused while you take a call. We’re used to it. We accept it. A deeply entrenched part of our culture accepts... More...
