The Edit: Focus and Endurance
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Testing your focus, the Paris Olympics and more in #TheEdit.
- Test your focus: Can you spend 10 minutes with one painting? Focus is a skill. We’ll help you practice – NY Times
- All that we are. The philosophy of personalism inspired Martin Luther King’s dream of a better world. We still need its hopeful ideas today – Aeon
- The unexpectedly hopeful Paris Olympics. This year’s iteration, for all its flaws, has already inspired some positive change – New Yorker
- A short history of AI. How AI overcame decades of underdelivering – The Economist
- The world of work is changing. Is Canary Wharf ready? A host of buildings will require renovations to attract new tenants as major occupants depart – Financial Times
- How passion can backfire at work. And how we can reap the benefits of passion without falling prey to its downsides – Harvard Business Review
- Team GB: The Everyday Resilience of an Olympian. How Team GB are inspiring the next generation to be healthy in body and mind – The Beautiful Truth
“But there’s something to be said for this struggle, much like there’s something to be said for the agony of athletes. There is hope in it.”
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