An interesting article from Thursday's NYT's that discusses how becoming more mindful through simple meditation can improve cognitive abilities and release anxiety while at the same time helping to combat the myth of 'multi-tasking' that dominates the modern world. Mindfulness has emotional, cognitive, and physical benefits and could move us, as the author Maria Konnikova argues, to a more Holmes-like state of achieving better results by training our ability to unitask.
The Power of Concentration
