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Further Adventures in Attention and Focus

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How long is your attention span?

Hoping to further my experiences from this weekend’s readings on attention span, I sequestered myself away from the world once again this evening while reading Andrew Keen’s article “The Great Seduction.” Upon reading the text I set my analog kitchen timer to forty minutes. The reprieve from phone calls was greatly welcome.  I was positive using my cell phone to keep time would only be a distraction as it has no airplane mode and no timer.  That’s what you get for keeping a piece of semi-modern technology for three years, four if the first incarnation hadn’t been playing around in my laundry pile.

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