{"id":518,"date":"2014-06-06T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T12:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themic21.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2014-06-06T12:47:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T12:47:29","slug":"the-art-of-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themic21.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See on <a style='font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px;' href='http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/individual-and-special-needs-examiner\/p\/4022583324\/2014\/06\/06\/the-art-of-focus'>Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href='http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/individual-and-special-needs-examiner'>Individual and Special Needs Examiner<\/a><br \/><a href='http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/individual-and-special-needs-examiner\/p\/4022583324\/2014\/06\/06\/the-art-of-focus'><img src='http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/Mm8dk7mvzPnFY2i_2ddTWTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lesson from childhood, then, is that if you want to win the war for attention, don&rsquo;t try to say &ldquo;no&rdquo; to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say &ldquo;yes&rdquo; to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the terrifying longing crowd out everything else.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #E3E3E3; background-image: url('http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/resources\/img\/v3\/white_quote.png'); background-position: 10px 10px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-top: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-left: 42px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; line-height: 17px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\">\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0px;\"><b>Michael MacNeil<\/b>&#8216;s insight:<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0px;\">\n<p>This surely is an age of distractions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>See on <a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/03\/opinion\/brooks-the-art-of-focus.html?referrer='>www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See on Scoop.it &#8211; Individual and Special Needs Examiner The lesson from childhood, then, is that if you want to win the war for attention, don&rsquo;t try to say &ldquo;no&rdquo; to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say &ldquo;yes&rdquo; to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/themic21.com\/?p=518\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themic21.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themic21.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themic21.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themic21.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themic21.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themic21.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/themic21.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themic21.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themic21.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themic21.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}