alek manov

The good news is that no matter what you do, your mind will still wander. The bad news is that it may be doing so at the expense of your conscious efforts to focus.

If you’re only ever exposing yourself to interesting information, if you’re only ever exposing yourself to the stimuli, but not taking the time to actually think about it — to process it, to look at it from different angles, to try to run it against other paradigms or structures you have in your current mental schema — if you don’t do that work of just being alone with your own thoughts, you’re probably extracting just a small fraction of the potential value.

… as possible may seem exciting to some, but there is a point at which we all become overstimulated — where more input actually means less value. Cal Newport, an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University and an advocate fo…