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Detachment is the cost of our wondrous, liberating mobility, the price we pay for living untethered.
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We endeavor to hustle past the limitations of the clock via a split-focused life, and we lose our anchoring and hence our sense of self in a blurred life broken from place.
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Now we live in societies of control, not discipline…
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This miraculous cultural invention [reading], a feat so unnatural that it necessitates a painstaking rewiring of the brain to learn, shapes our understanding of life.
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Done well, reading gives us a deeply meaningful framework for living.
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Just as we expose ourselves to each other behind the veil of the virtual, so we leap toward intimacy at the thinnest signs of life…
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In a distracted time, our virtual, split-screen, and nomadic lives nurture diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment.
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…forecasting the future is really just the delicate delineation of life’s uncertainties, helped by consistently glancing backward twice as far as you look ahead.
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Without the powers of focus, awareness, and judgment that fuel self-control, we cannot fend off distractions, set goals, manage a complex, changing environment, and ultimately shape the trajectory of our lives.
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If we want to shape our own future, we must consider how we want to live and how we want to define progress, and as we do so, prepare to welcome to our ranks the thinking person’s most prickly yet necessary companion – doubt.
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