Twitter and e-mail aren't making us stupider, but they are making us more distracted...

A new book explains why learning to focus is the key to living better.

As Laura Miller writes, "Here's a fail-safe topic when making conversation with everyone from cab drivers to grad students to cousins in the construction trade: Mention the fact that you're finding it harder and harder to concentrate lately."
She continues to write that the complaint appears to be universal, yet everyone blames it on some personal factor: having a baby, starting a new job, turning 50, having to use a Blackberry for work, getting on Facebook, and so on.

This fascinating book delves deeper into the understanding that as long as we remain only dimly aware of the dueling attention systems within us, the reactive will continue to win out over the reflective...

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