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“The first key fact is that attention is limited.”

Pay attention! Isn’t that the first step to. . . well. . . just about everything? It turns out, however, that most of us are terrible judges of how well we can focus. We tend to think that we can … Continue reading

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“You were right to tell me that in life, it is not the future which counts, but the past.”

What kind of person believes that the past is more important than the future? Wouldn’t the least likely be someone with amnesia? The central character in this novel by Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano is a Parisian who has no memory … Continue reading

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