Our attention spans may be fried, but they don’t have to stay that way.
In a modest attempt to sharpen your focus, we’d like you to consider looking at a single painting for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
Our exercise is based on an assignment that Jennifer Roberts, an art history professor at Harvard, gives to her students. She asks them to go to a museum, pick one work of art, and look at only that for three full hours.
We are not asking for hours. But will you try 10 minutes?
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Source: Elections - nytimes.com
