but I think much of it is me slowly—still—becoming less reactive to the discomfort of sitting in stillness and confusion.
The ability to do deepwork is related to create less distraction because of discomfort during it. To keep at it, where a more gratifying small task is just a click away.
how to cultivate deep, stable concentration in the face of complex, ill-structured creative problems?” I now have several years of data on self-reported focus and energy levels, and it’s comforting to see that this does get easier with practice.
it is easy to pretend interruption is the work. Matuschak descibes focus work as a trained thing he improved upon.
They exert agency, in other words, on the formation of the world beyond their head.
many of my generation are increasingly craving a return to this attentional autonomy. There’s something dehumanizing about the endless attention engineered feeds scrolling by on smart phones.