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You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and professional goals are put on hold. What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions?...
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"Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening-and how to get our attention back. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of self-help...
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We all yearn to look back to find we lived a life of significance. But is it even possible anymore? Considering the amount of distraction and pressure that exists in society today, living a fulfilling life may seem like an unachievable dream. But it is notnot with the nine habits outlined in this book.New York Times bestselling author and widely known blogger, Rachel Macy Stafford, reveals nine habits that help you focus on investing in the most significant...
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Vergara/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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Entiende como funciona tu mente, aumenta la concentracion. el rendimiento y la productividad en tu vida profesional y personal. La magia de la concentracion presenta tecnicas y estrategias para incrementar tu fuerza de voluntad, evitar el cansancio mental y fortalecer tus habitos. Luego de varios anos con problemas de hiperactividad, el pequeno Daigo se canso de todo el acoso escolar del que era victima, tanto fue su hartazgo que decidio leer e investigar...
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STUFFology 101 is for those us who want to #de-clutter without being featured on reality TV. We can still use our bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen, but we harbor secrets. 1. Do you race around to pick up piles when someone's at the door? 2. Do you close the door to hide your stuff in the spare room? 3. Do you still have boxes to unpack from your last move a dozen years ago? 4. Are you unable to focus because your mind is so frazzled? STUFFologists Brenda...
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Hanover Square Press
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[2023]
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English
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"We spend an average of just 47 seconds on any screen before shifting our attention. It takes 25 minutes to bring our attention back to a task after an interruption. And we interrupt ourselves more than we're interrupted by others. In Attention Span, psychologist Gloria Mark reveals these and more surprising results from her decades of research into how technology affects our attention. She shows how much of what we think we know is wrong, including...
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Maurice Bassett
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©2011
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English
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A non-linear approach for dealing with time. In this age of instant global connection to everyone and everything, your "war" is against interruption and distraction. The "violence" in the word "warrior" was intended. For although the work you do can be slow and easy, to master non-linear time you must pull out your sword ahead of time to carve out periods of space and silence. Time Warriors arrange the "chaos" around them by slowing down -- way, way...
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My neighbor Seki volume 9
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Vertical Comics
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[2016]
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English
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Seki transforms himself into an old lady selling cheap candy, an avant garde artist who uses a very unusual medium, and even a marionette who mimics his own antics in miniature. Will Seki's artistic abilities land him a job as a manga artist?
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Pkcs Media, Inc
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© 2019
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English
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Control your brain so it doesn't control you. A science-based approach to getting things done and avoiding laziness and procrastination. Our brains are not wired for goal achievement. They are wired only for speed, survival, and the present moment. It's time to defeat this primal tendency and make self-discipline your new normal.
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My neighbor Seki volume 7
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Vertical Comics, an imprint of Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Seki Claus doesn't care if you are naughty or nice, cause he'll be making a stop in his classroom to quietly make reindeer games. But if Rumi Yokoi gets her holiday wish he might get caught in the process"--Page 4 of cover.
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My neighbor Seki volume 8
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Vertical Comics
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[2016]
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English
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Classroom Clowning. Seki creates a new twist on a board game, crafts his own version of a jack-in-the-box, and invents a machine that recycles eraser scraps that ends up being a little too perfectly entertaining. But Yokoi discovers that the most distracting game of all involves toys that are completely invisible!
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My neighbor Seki volume 10
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Vertical Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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The ABC's of Diversions--Seki's desktop renovation is fit for a TV show. He adds turf just to create crop circles, and lures beetles and cicadas... until a larger predator shows up. Seki's building a kaiju with a secret inside for the school fair. And can Rumi rescue Jun's doll from the path of vigilantism...?
15) 100 chapatis
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Owlkids Books
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[2023]
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English
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"'When will the baby come?' Simon asks his pappa. Knowing how hard it is to wait and how much it helps to keep busy, Pappa starts Simon on a project of making one hundred chapatis, meant to be ready when mom and dad and the new baby come home. They measure the ingredients, knead and roll the dough, and then drop them one by one into a giant frying pan. Simon continues to be anxious. "Will the baby eat all my chapatis?" But it's not long before he...
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"A groundbreaking new book from the bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant follow-up, The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind. We often complain about our fractured mental lives and...
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"A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge, and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later"--
"The digital era is beset by distraction: we fantasize about escaping our screen, and recapturing a world with less noise. Kreiner demonstrates that the attempts of monks to contemplate the divine order and its ethical requirements were all-consuming, and their battles...
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My neighbor Seki volume 5
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Vertical Comics, an imprint of Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Seki, Rumi and the rest are on a school trip. But even with so much to see and do, Seki continues to look for ways to goof around. Rumi is not going to miss the opportunity to keep him in check"--Page 4 of cover.
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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Award-winning philosopher, international speaker, and scholar Dr. Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta brings us a philosophical manifesto that aims to encourage listeners to learn to think for themselves and not allow technology to dominate and control their lives.
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"From the bestselling author of Driven to Distraction, the world's leading expert on ADD and ADHD tackles attention deficit inside today's workplaces. Ned Hallowell, known for his work with children and adults, now identifies the underlying reasons why people really lose their ability to focus at work--where many of today's adults feel distracted and unproductive. He explains why commonly offered solutions like "learn to manage your time better" or...
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