A Better Way of Working Blog

Thoughts and ideas about transforming the way the world works


Focus, Mental Needs
1 COMMENTS | May 29, 2012
In my most recent blog, I wrote about how we've allowed technology to take a pernicious toll on our attention, and in turn, on our creativity, our resilience, our relationships and, ultimately, our productivity.This week I'm turning my focus to how to wrest back control of your attention, so you can make conscious choices that provide long term satisfaction rather than instant but fleeting gratification.
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Focus, Mental Needs
1 COMMENTS | May 17, 2012
Technology is meant to serve us. Instead it increasingly runs us — and runs us down.Where we put our focus shapes our agenda and defines our experience in every moment. More and more, we're turning over this precious resource to our digital technology, allowing it to define the depth and span of our attention, and to seduce us into operating at such high speeds that we don't notice the insidious toll that's taking.
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Life Lessons
COMMENTS | May 1, 2012
Tomorrow is my birthday — always an opportunity for reflection, but especially this time. For several weeks now, I've been thinking about what I've learned during the past six decades that really matters. Here's a first pass:
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