How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction
John Cassian, "How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction "
English | ISBN: 0691208085 | 2024 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 667 KB + 1160 KB
English | ISBN: 0691208085 | 2024 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 667 KB + 1160 KB
How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like one
Distraction isn’t a new problem. We’re also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God, yet they still struggled to keep the demons of distraction at bay. But rather than surrender to the meandering of their minds, they developed powerful strategies to improve their attention and engagement. How to Focus is an inviting collection of their strikingly relatable insights and advice―frank, funny, sympathetic, and psychologically sophisticated.
This wisdom is drawn from John Cassian’s fifth-century CE
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