{"id":11377,"date":"2009-02-21T20:11:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T20:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/notable_and_quotable_21_february_2009\/"},"modified":"2009-02-21T20:11:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T20:11:06","slug":"notable_and_quotable_21_february_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11377","title":{"rendered":"Notable and Quotable (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think all our gadgets today are great, but they do change our lives – we’re so mobile, split-focused, cyber-centric – that we’re squeezing out room for “pause” – for conversation, for reflective thought. That’s the problem. We need to re-balance – and particularly nurture our powers of attention….<\/p>\n

In my book, I talk about the costs of living distracted. When we aren’t fully aware or split our focus all the time, we essentially don’t go deeply, in thought or in relationships. We become a skimming culture – and that’s dangerous. But new discoveries related to attention can help – for instance, attention can be trained! That’s exciting news for us all.<\/p>\n

—Maggie Jackson, Boston Globe columnist and author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age<\/b> (2008)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think all our gadgets today are great, but they do change our lives – we’re so mobile, split-focused, cyber-centric – that we’re squeezing out room for “pause” – for conversation, for reflective thought. That’s the problem. We need to…<\/span><\/p>\n

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