Andy McIlwain

1465 days ago

A more advanced method for concentrating was to build elaborate mental structures in the course of reading and thinking. Nuns, monks, preachers and the people they educated were always encouraged to visualise the material they were processing.

Focus dammit! Lessons from the ancients

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We may marvel at the advances of modern technology, but the intricacies of human thought and its Machiavellian manoeuvres are timeless, as shown by the advice drawn here from medieval monks, highly pertinent to our ubiquitous, latter-day digital distractions.