We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.
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The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.
Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.
That part of life is the thing that we really need to concentrate on. If you lose the way children look through their eyes at the world, it really becomes kind of a doldrum.
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions... entertainment... cares and anxieties... and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.
The constant attention is what is so difficult.
I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.
Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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