I've been thinking about flow states lately. That's when you're so focused, so enveloped in a pursuit, that you forget about time, where you are, what day it is. You are completely in the zone, whether it's improvising on piano, writing a short story or swimming a mile of laps at the local pool. But how do you achieve this state in the midst of intense digital distraction? The question's been on my mind thanks to Contributing Editor Kenneth Miller's feature on our society's nonstop digital highway of details and its effect on our brains.
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