Distraction, says Mischel, is actually a perfectly respectable away of exerting willpower. You simply shift your attention away whenever temptation crops up.

其实分散注意力是一种很好的方法，无论诱惑何时出现，你只要转移注意力就行了。

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The opposite of attention is distraction, an unnatural condition and one that, as Meyer discovered in 1995, kills.

关注的对立面是分心，这很自然，正如Meyer在1995年发现的那样，还会致命。

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We live in the age of distraction. Yet one of life's sharpest paradoxes is that your brightest future hinges on your ability to pay attention to the present.

我们生活在一个注意力分散的时代。但是生活中最明显的似非而是的说法之一是：你最光明的未来依赖于你专注于现在的能力。

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Johnson then moves on to more tactical approaches such as improving your attention span and eliminating distraction.

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But allowing it to consume our well-being and attention acts as a distraction and can cause anxiety or stress especially in the workplace.

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What we do not want to do is turn "weapons of mass disruption" as Barack Obama dubbed cyberattacks in 2009 into weapons of mass distraction, diverting national attention from more burning problems while promoting extremely costly solutions.

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