Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World · chapter 5 · id deep-work-c5-02-you-must-train-your-ability-to
“You must train your ability to concentrate, treating it like a muscle that strengthens with use. Scheduling internet use rather than scheduling breaks from the internet rewires your brain for focus.”
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Tang, Holzel & Posner (2015). The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16, 213-225.source alive
Attentional training through meditation produces measurable changes in brain structure and function, including increased cortical thickness in attention-related regions.
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Neuroscience supports the idea that sustained attention is trainable, but the specific claim that scheduling internet use produces lasting cognitive change has not been directly tested.
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