Solitude is the gym where your attention span gets its reps back.

Attention is trainable, and it recovers under roughly the conditions that wore it down, only reversed. Long stretches with one thing and no interruption rebuild the capacity to stay, which is exactly what constant switching erodes. The quiet is not the reward for the work, it is the training.

Give yourself one unbroken stretch this week with a single thing in front of you: a book, a task, an instrument. Expect the first ten minutes to itch. Stay past that point, because the part after the itch is where the repair actually happens.