Tid Bit from My Diary

  Today, we start from where we left off yesterday — where we shared wisdom from great minds on the importance of concentration and focus. Now, let’s go a step deeper and explore how to rebuild attention as a habit , not merely resist distraction — how to move toward a philosophy of focus and presence. We are living in a time when information comes at us with the quantity and force of a fire hose. We can no longer easily decide what is important and what is not. In that constant quest to stay updated, we live on alert — forever scanning for what comes next, and in the process, we lose hold of the present. Consequently, attention has become a rare commodity. This state has reached epidemic proportions, so much so that it now has a name — intermittent attention : a fragmented mental state where focus keeps leaping between a dozen competing demands. Each tiny interruption steals a fraction of our mental energy. Over time, we end up scattered — busy, but rarely absorbed; informed, but ...