Book Titles

Once we’re distracted by something new, we often forget about the original task.

The ultimate consequence of juggling many tasks is not superficiality but rather overload.

We’ve failed to recognize that attention is a capacity that must be both intentionally trained and regularly renewed.

…many researchers now believe that regardless of your inborn talent, you can achieve excellence in almost any domain through single-minded focus and practice.

Though few [distractions] are truly threatening and most are relatively trivial, they’re often very seductive and compelling.

When something enters our field of attention, simply responding to it is the path of least resistance.

The only thing more horrifying to most of us than an inbox with two hundred new e-mails is one that doesn’t contain any. We want to be wanted.

Gaining more control of our attention, it turns out, is intimately linked to our capacity to delay gratification.

…the more secure children feel, the more emboldened they are to separate from their mothers and explore the world.

…the safer and more secure we feel, the more attention we can allocate to our long-term goals.