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Is the fidget toy the cure for addictive distractions?

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Fidget toys are now the rage in a time when focus is foundering
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“Keep still and listen,” this was the common phrase aimed at fidgety kids years ago. In the smart phone age, however, fidgeting is pretty much epidemic, and not just in classrooms. It seems fewer and fewer people can keep still and listen these days. In business meetings, boredom, anxiety and disinterest … Read More

The 21st Century Writer

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Melville never had to ignore the attraction of satellite television when he penned Moby Dick; Hemingway didn’t have the option of playing Modern Warfare 3 instead of writing A Farewell to Arms; and Shakespeare wouldn’t have needed to write “Sonnet 130” if he could have just texted his feelings to … Read More

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