Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

So, to find flow, you need to choose one single goal; make sure your goal is meaningful to you; and try to push yourself to the edge of your abilities. 

How do you slow down in a world that is speeding up?

I wondered if the motto for our era should be: I tried to live, but I got distracted.

Many of the things we need to do are so obvious they are banal: slow down, do one thing at a time, sleep more. But even though at some level we all know them to be true, we are in fact moving in the opposite direction: toward more speed, more switch-ing, less sleep.