Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Oliver Burkeman said
ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.
On the topicIs discipline the answer?under our view: Willpower does not last: enjoyment, surroundings and systems do the work
This is why most anti-distraction hacks – web-blocking apps, noise-canceling headphones, personal rules – never seem to work very well.
Where this was said
↗The truth about distractionoliverburkeman.com
All 3 korrents from this piecethis one is 2nd
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I hold this tooNothing near enough to show. As of the last pass () this claim had been compared with the other 13153 claims in the archive and none was close enough in subject or wording to put here. That can change as the archive grows — it is not a judgement that this claim stands alone.