This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1296, a primer on full-screen living by Leo Baboud of Zenhabits.net.

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optimizing your life. A primer on full-screen living by Leo Baboud of Zenhabits.net.

The other day while I was visiting a friend, she offered her dog a bone. The dog wanted the

bone, but didn't want to drop the toy animal in his mouth to get the bone. Jack, you can't have both

at the same time, my friend said. Most of us are like Jack. We want more than one thing at once.

We're not willing to let go of one thing in order to do another. We're doing one work task while

trying to stay on top of email, text messages, and social media. We're talking with a friend while

seeing what we're missing on Facebook and Instagram. We're eating while planning, making love while

thinking about work. Like Jack, we think we can hold two things in our mouths at once, but actually

that's a fantasy. We can't taste the food while thinking about what we need to do later.

Our mouths may be moving and the food might be swallowed, but there's no awareness of how the food

tastes. Instead, we're switching back and forth between the planning and the tasting,

like a dog going back and forth between a bone and a toy, not content to do just one thing at a time.

I'd like to offer as an alternative full-screen living. What's full-screen living?

It's a life where we allow one thing to take up the entirety of our attention,

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