Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

Chapter 8Manage Focus

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

John Anthony Ciardi

I don’t need to tell you that we live in information-rich times. But perversely, the overabundance of information has resulted in a poverty of knowledge and attention. With so much available distraction, it’s easy to lose focus. Rather than wandering around in the middle of the information highway,^[136] you need to take deliberate steps to manage what you’re thinking about.

Using the same approach as in Chapter 6, ​Learn Deliberately​, you’ll need to manage thinking more deliberately. You need to be able to focus on the information ...