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Are You Impairing the Very Skills You Need Most?

3 May 2026 · 1 min

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Ashish Kothari argues we're actively weakening the attention and focus skills we need most. Without the ability to stay present, he says, effective work, good decisions, problem-solving, and healthy relationships all fall apart.

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Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Not only are we underutilizing it, as you say, right? There's so many capacities that are available to us that we're not even tapping into. But also we are impairing those exactly the capacities that we need to navigate the world today. Our ability to pay attention and focus and be present is the foundation for everything we are doing. It's the foundation for our work, uh, for good decision-making, problem-solving. It's the foundation for, uh, good relationships, communication.