What Christopher Nolan Can Teach Us About Focus and Productivity
Some lessons from the filmmaker on ultimate concentration.
Perhaps you’ve seen the trailer for Christoper Nolan’s next film, “Tenet,” which is slated for summer 2020. Based on those highly enigmatic two minutes of footage, it seems like an espionage flick blended with some mind-bending concepts — people effortlessly leap up the side of a skyscraper, a crashed car seems to miraculously repair itself, and one character points to bullet-holes in a wall from an event that haven’t “happened yet.”
In other words, it’s a Christopher Nolan film, and it will no doubt prove as consciousness-melting as “Inception” (also something of an espionage flick, albeit one that took place mostly in the realm of dreams) and “Memento” (in which the central character is never fully sure of his reality). In keeping with Nolan’s previous works, plot details likely won’t leak until the release date, so feel free to guess about what he has in store. (Personal theory: The characters in “Tenet” have learned how to manipulate time itself.)
