The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction PB_Gift_Guide A tall iron fence surrounds

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or the curveballs life throws at you

or to venture into the darkness and reach for hope once more

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction PB_Gift_Guide A tall iron fence surroundsA revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later. The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our screens. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. We imagine