Tag: Distraction

Global Business in the Age of Destruction and Distraction


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English | October 26, 2022 | ISBN: 0192847139 | 176 pages | MOBI | 0.60 Mb
When a crisis like a pandemic sweeps through societies, it upends critical structures in health, economics, socioeconomics, institutional cultures, communities, and everyday life. This book examines how a world already stressed by rampant change reacts to a global crisis. It draws on experts that foresee a growing economic inequality as the tech-savvy pull further ahead of those with less access to digital tools, training, or aptitude. Some anticipate big technology firms that will exploit their market advantages and weaponize tools that erode the privacy and autonomy of their users. Some predict that changes exacerbated by the pandemic will result in significant portions of the population benefiting from reforms aimed at racial justice and social equity as critiques of current economic arrangements, and capitalism itself, gain support and policymaker attention. The authors examine the complexities and realities of a world filled with distraction and how focus is diverted during a time of primary technological revolution. These patterns are destroying old thinking models and establishing new paradigms. This conversation takes time to investigate voice, tools, and strategies for coping and remaining relevant in the middle of the whirlwind.

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Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture


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English | ISBN: 0192856308 | 2022 | 464 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history. This interdisciplinary study explores the dynamic relationship between attention and its supposed opposite, distraction, as it unfolds from the eighteenth century to the present day. Its primary focus is on twentieth-century Germany and Austria, where matters of (in)attention gained a unique urgency during a period of social change and political crisis.

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Things That Matter Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life


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English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09C9SGRCT | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:34:00 | 186 Mb
#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Discover practical steps you can take today to live a life focused on things that matter, from the bestselling author of The More of Less and The Minimalist Home.
"Things That Matter points the way to free ourselves from the distractions of everyday life so that we can build the lives we seek to create."-Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

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How to Lead in a World of Distraction Four Simple Habits for Turning Down the Noise [Audiobook]


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English | September 24, 2019 | ASIN: B07KK3NSV1 | M4B@64 kbps | 4h 59m | 144 MB
Author and Narrator: Clay Scroggins
How to replace inner chaos with an emotional awareness that will maximize your influence and result in a calmer, less stressful, and more fulfilling life.

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Contemporary Fictions of Attention Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century


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English | ISBN: 147428261X | 2018 | 224 pages | PDF | 1479 KB
With the supposed shortening of our attention spans, what future is there for fiction in the age of the internet? Contemporary Fictions of Attention rejects this discourse of distraction-crisis which suggests that the future of reading is in peril, and instead finds that contemporary writers construct ‘fictions of attention’ that find some value in states or moments of inattention. Through discussion of work by a diverse selection of writers, including Joshua Cohen, Ben Lerner, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace, this book identifies how fiction prompts readers to become peripherally aware of their own attention.

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