Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How do I get it back?

Re:Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How... by mr_overalls on Thursday December 28, 2017 @03:15PM (#16024578)

This is a bit like recommending a marathon to someone who is sedentary. Building a daily meditation habit of at least 20-30 minutes of sustained attention might be a good preliminary step.

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Re:Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How... by andrei_says_ on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:09PM (#16025377)

I disagree. Isolating from an environment which supports constant interruption and does not support focus, is incredibly important.

Also, meditation is not running, meditation is rest.

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Re:Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How... by observation on Thursday December 28, 2017 @07:32PM (#16026445)

I don't know, it might be much easier.

I myself went on one, found it helped concentration, but neglected to keep up a daily practice since.

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Re:Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How... by dukeflukem on Friday December 29, 2017 @03:57PM (#16031941)

Such a bold statement. You have to explain why.

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Re:Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How... by chad_strategic on Saturday December 30, 2017 @09:11PM (#16038955)

Ugh I fell for this off argument...

Meditation predates Christianity. Buddhism any one? I don’t recall anybody meditating and then become ing a suicide bomber.

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Re:Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How... by andrei_says_ on Saturday December 30, 2017 @04:03AM (#16034491)

Which one of the many gods do you think it tries to impose upon and in what way? What do you think is the purpose of prayer and what do you think is the purpose of meditation?

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Re:Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How... by nukeop on Saturday December 30, 2017 @06:26AM (#16034808)

There is only one God, by definition. If there were many, they wouldn't be God, by an obvious contradiction (since God is the greatest conceivable being, there is only one).

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Re:Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How... by naru_s on Saturday December 30, 2017 @08:31AM (#16035150)

Thats your definition of God, the definition that is made by people like you who want to make claim for your God. Stop making such obvious circular logic please. You know in the history on mankind there are more than 3000 definitions of God. If you born in old Greece 2000 years ago, your definition of God would be different from now. If you are born in Thai or India, your God will again be different. What you are currently believing just depends on your geographic location.

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Re:Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How... by nukeop on Saturday December 30, 2017 @09:32AM (#16035363)

If I were born in Greece 2000 years ago I would have read Plato and know the same definition anyone interested in theology has known since the Sumerians. You would have read Plato too and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Please stop spreading this misconception that religions are somehow completely different and incompatible, they are simply different paths to the same goal, this has been acknowledged by saints and scholars across the world for as long as there has been religion. We might disagree on some particulars but the core concept and idea of the absolute reality is the same.

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Re:Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How... by krapp on Friday December 29, 2017 @07:54PM (#16033106)

Prayer has never helped anyone, unless you consider the placebo effect to be helpful. In which case prayer is no more or less useful than meditation.

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Re:Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How... by dadada07 on Friday December 29, 2017 @07:45PM (#16033064)

I feel you've got those two switched around.

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