Tolerating distraction
- Written by David Marno, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Should we be more patient with those we view as distracted?Serhii Bobyk/Shutterstock.com
A constant complaint in our unpredictable world is that we live in an age of distraction.
I am quick to label students who stare at their phones in my class distracted; politicians dismiss inconvenient questions by calling them a distraction; and when we find...