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Maybe We Should Thank the Buddhists for Mindfulness Meditation

Maybe We Should Thank the Buddhists for Mindfulness Meditation

Catholics keep flogging their tired old nag of a gripe about mindfulness meditation, even though heavyweights like Peter Kreeft and Kevin Majeres have given it their thumbs-up. Their big beef? “The Buddhists kicked it off!” Cue the pearl-clutching and incense-waving, as if that’s a knockout punch. It’s the

If You Want to Write, Learn to Walk

If You Want to Write, Learn to Walk

"Now I’ve got you, you nihilist! Sitting on your arse is precisely the sin against the Holy Ghost. Only those thoughts that come in walking have any value." Nietzsche

A Dominican, a Neuroscientist, and Computer Scientist Walk into a Bar . . . or Maybe a Library

A Dominican, a Neuroscientist, and Computer Scientist Walk into a Bar . . . or Maybe a Library

A.G. Sertillanges (the Dominican), Andrew Huberman (the Neuroscientist), and Cal Newport (the Computer Scientist) on the Need for Focus

Recommended? Get Frustrated with Your Cell Phone

Recommended? Get Frustrated with Your Cell Phone

Derek Smith at Michigan Engineering

The Left Hemisphere Thwarts Focus: On Art Appreciation

The Left Hemisphere Thwarts Focus: On Art Appreciation

Attention, attention, attention. Everyone is starved for it . . . their own, not others. People want to be able to focus again. Madison Avenue purposefully kills it: The legal scholar Tim Wu, in his book “The Attention Merchants,” notes, “Without express consent, most of us have passively opened ourselves up to the

No Cell Phones in This Room

No Cell Phones in This Room

The room: A room in his house that he has dedicated strictly to deep work. I think it's a den: a study or small library. He never takes his cell phone into it. Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve ProductivityIn this episode, my guest is

Five Dispositions that Can Make Your Life More Productive and Happy

Five Dispositions that Can Make Your Life More Productive and Happy

The philosophy of focusing on a slow and loving existence in the quiet now

Jigsaw Puzzles. Non-Stories. The Focused Life?

Jigsaw Puzzles. Non-Stories. The Focused Life?

My father-in-law is 93 and really sharp. One thing he does to keep sharp: jigsaw puzzles. He times himself and works them serenely but with focus. The mental exercise drips with lessons explored by Dr. Kevin Majerjes at Optimal Work: short bursts of sustained focus, little goals that keep you

How to Use the Cold Weather

How to Use the Cold Weather

I woke up yesterday morning to the gales of November, the same that brought down the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, according to meteorologists who said the atmospheric mix that dumped a few inches on my town is the same that brought down the mighty freighter. I could hear a collective