Book Titles

…self-controlled students manage their efforts at learning not only by suppressing distractions but by constantly evaluating their own thought and progress.

…our ability to sustain the memory of a skill… over time and distance and then replicate the behavior for one’s own purposes, is a crucial and uniquely human capacity.

From attention, we glean the will and the tenacity to create lives of meaning and culture marked by reason and vision.

In cultivating distraction, we cannot perceptively look back or see ahead; we are defeated in the battle to shape our future.

Only a society rich in memory and reflection can hope to build a culture of creativity, vision, and care.

We surely need to wisely preserve our digital heritage so that we don’t become either informational amnesiacs or mindless hoarders of life’s minutia. But we need a past to learn from.

…we should endeavor to value self-control as integral to many, if not most, functions of life and a key to deeply engaged, critical learning.

With splintered focus, we’re cultivating a culture of distraction and detachment.

We are eroding attention – the most crucial building block of wisdom, memory, and ultimately the key to societal progress.

In attention, we find the powers of selection and focus we so badly need in order to carve knowledge from the vast, shifting, and ebbing oceans of information that surround us.