About this episode

Thanh discusses the challenges of maintaining focus and concentration in a world full of distractions.

Why did reading twenty books a year suddenly become impossible? Thanh used to fly through books and podcasts without a second thought — until his ability to concentrate quietly started slipping away, and no amount of blocking notifications or silencing his phone fixed it. The distraction wasn’t coming from his devices. It was coming from […]

People in this episode

Host: Thanh

Topics covered

• focus
• distraction
• reading
• concentration
• productivity

Keywords

• focus
• distraction
• reading
• concentration
• productivity
• books
• podcasts

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