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When you mourn your own lost capacity for deep attention

I used to read books for hours as a teenager and now I feel accomplished if I read ten pages without checking something.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

We grieve abilities we trained ourselves out of.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Attention as scarce resource?”

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