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Attention Skills: How to Gain Productivity

The Academic Life

CHAPTER

The Four Quadrants of Attention Management for Productivity

On page five of your book, you lay out the four quadrants of attension management for productivity. The first one is about being active and distracted; it breaks down where your attention is at the moment. You also explain to us the state of attention that everyone loves and most people don't know how to get themselves into, which is called flow. But we can absolutely live a life that is impeding flow through the distractions and through the lack of understanding of where we're putting our attention. It's very difficult to achieve flow in the presence, if not impossible, to achieve flow with distraction.

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