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S5 E2: There Are Different Types of Attention (Gloria Mark)

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Write Activity - It Makes You Happy, You Know?

Michael Kavnett: People report being genuinely happy by playing solitaire, doing crossword puzzles. He says Maya Angelou used to bring a deck of cards with her when she would go off to write and do these wrote attention activities during breaks. The philosopher Wittgenstein said that he got his best ideas from peeling potatoes, which is wrote activity,. That's right. There are some great minds that benefit from wrote activity.

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