Attentiveness, and its Lack
Last week, I listened to [an Ezra Klein interview with Gloria Mark], a psychology professor at UC-Irvine, on the topic of attention. It was a thought-provoking conversation, perhaps as much for what it didn’t say as what it did (nary a peep about neurodivergence, for example). But it got me thinking about attention – about my own struggles to marshal it since the pandemic began, about the many distractions in my own life, and about my students’ ability to focus,…