Once you’re wired for distraction, you crave it. - Cal Newport

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” Blaise Pascal famously wrote in the late seventeenth century.

Giving people more control over what they do and how they do it increases their happiness, engagement, and sense of fulfillment.

First, when you focus only on what your work offers you, it makes you hyperaware of what you don’t like about it, leading to chronic unhappiness.