Any plan for sidestepping distractions calls for strategies on sidestepping distraction.It is a fantasy to think that we can dodge distraction once and for all. There will always be exciting things to create distraction for the mind.

The problem of concentration

Medieval monks had a hard time concentrating while they were supposed to focus on divine communication: to read, to pray and sing, and to work to understand God.The ideal was a mind that was always and actively reaching out to its target by working hard at making the mind behave. The monks found it easier to concentrate when their bodies were moving, whether they were baking or farming.

Medieval monks 

Nuns, monks, preachers and the people they educated were to visualize the material they were processing. A branchy tree or a finely feathered angel. The images might loosely correspond to the substance of an idea.The point was to give the mind something to draw, to indulge its appetite for interesting forms while sorting its ideas into some logical structure.

A method for concentrating

Medieval monks had a terrible time concentrating. And concentration was their lifelong work! Their tech was obviously different from ours. But their anxiety about distraction was not. They complained about being overloaded with information, and about how, even once you finally settled on something to read, it was easy to get bored and turn to something else.

The problem of concentration

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