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For now, your aim is just to tame the constant movements of attention, while at the same time trying to maintain ***peripheral awareness*** of things in the background. In other words, you want to develop stable attention with mindfulness.
The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science
Culadasa John Yates
You can’t consume and produce at the same time – when you’re in high-producing mode you have to temporarily step away from your magazines, blogs, and other forms of distraction for a while. Being in the pattern of checking your RSS reader every time you sit down at your computer kills hours of productivity each week. Those are hours that could be spent building your product.
Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup
Walling, Rob
Yoga, meditation, breathing techniques, and martial arts all affect how your brain processes information. We are complex systems, and as we saw with systems thinking, that means everything is connected. Even something as simple as breathing in a particular manner can profoundly affect how you think.
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
Andy Hunt
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