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The wandering mind : what Medieval monks tell us about distraction by Jamie Kreiner is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<b>A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later.</b><br><br>The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our screens. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. We imagine retreating into solitude and s
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jamie Kreiner
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781631498060
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Psychology, Self Help, History
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (57 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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