Thinking Life How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction

Name: Thinking Life How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction
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ISBN: 9780312625726

ISBN-10: 0312625723

ISBN-13: 9780312625726

Edition: 2012

Authors: P. M. Forni

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How do we turn off the noise of daily life, turn on our brains, and begin to engage in that fundamental human activity known as thinking again? P.M. Forni, America's civility expert has given some thought to how we can successfully think our way through a greatly distracting world and live a better life. In The Thinking Life, he looks at the importance of thinking: how we do it, why we don't do it enough and why we need to do more of it. In twelve short chapters, he gives readers a remedy for the Age of Distraction, an age fuelled by social networking overload, compulsive texting and an omnipresent stream of cellphone calls. He shows how to put aside time each day to improve:- Attention-…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 8/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.28" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Pier Massimo Forni is a professor of Italian literature at Johns Hopkins University.