The Important Must Supersede the Urgent

Here is an interesting article on how digital distractions are intruding on our lives. Reproduced are the first and last passages. Read the rest.

The Internet seems like an infinite source of information and knowledge, yet we often allow it and other digital technology to be infinitely distracting.

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Man must re-build the walls of his digitally infiltrated castle. He must find his place of quiet, of solace, of meditation, and of focus. The important must supersede the urgent once again; it starts with the off switch.