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#418 - Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention And Focus

Modern Wisdom

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Will You Take Me One Day to Graceland?

When he was nine years old, my godson developed this brief obsession with elvis. He would startike obsessively singing vivalas vegas and suspicious inds. One night when i was tucking him in, he said to me very intensely, will you take me one day to graceland? And i told him  yesi absolutely promise. But ten years later, when so many things had gone wrong, his life was just a blur of what's hap utube pawn. I could feel the same thing happening to me - it wasn't as extreme, but i could feel the san was si ket my own phone. So i suddenly remembered this moment from all

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