Understanding Attention

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We do everything so incredibly fast these days. Eat fast, drink fast, and get our various meetings over as quickly as possible. But all this speed has a price.

A friend of mine, who is a professor of English literature, became first the dean and then the vice-provost of her university. She did that for many years, and she was very good at it. But she complained more and more about not being able to enjoy the novels and poetry that had been her life before. This became so acute that she resigned from her post as vice-provost.

That is when she discovered she is not alone with this problem. In fact, there are entire courses designed to help high-level executives and administrators rediscover reading for pleasure.........

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