The Distractions Epidemic: Why managing our attention needs to become a top priority 

Suppose you're a fellow geriatric Millennial, a Gen-Xer or a Boomer working in the legal industry. In that case, you will remember the good old days when a pile of mail would be delivered to your desk in the morning after you'd made your morning coffee. At that point, you would know what your day had in store, and you could work through the pile methodically and reply thoughtfully. Responding by letter meant that once you put the envelope in the mail tray, you may have weeks before you would need to think about it again. Sure, emails would arrive, yet nowhere near the suffocating volume we now manage on a daily basis - not to mention the incredible pace we are now operating at, with immediate responses rebounding back to your inbox (and the expectation that you will respond almost instantaneously).