The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction PB_Gift_Guide to a time very much

to a time very much like our own

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The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction PB_Gift_Guide to a time very muchA 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. 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