Memos for book: The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

Now Bill Gates is also on board with meditation, using it to focus (as described in this book):

The self-made billionaire didn't always buy into meditation — he used to think of it as "a woo-woo thing," he admits — but now he practices two to three times per week because it helps him focus.

Geniuses of all kinds excel in their capacity for sustained voluntary attention.

Mind prone to distraction easily succumbs to a myriad of mental afflictions, leading to all kinds of harmful behaviors.

Capacity to voluntarily bring back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will.