Why It Is So Challenging to Stay in the Present

The period of time we find hardest to inhabit is the present; for a range of powerful reasons we should take on board.

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"Very many of us suffer from a peculiar-sounding problem: an inability to properly inhabit the stretch of time we call ‘the present’. Maybe we’re on a beautiful beach on a sunny day, the sky is azure and the palm trees slender and implausibly delicate, but most of ‘us’ isn’t actually here at all, it’s somewhere at work or in imaginary discussion with a rival or plotting a new enterprise...."

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