In his The Way of Zen, Alan Watts mentions several comparisons between the Western and Eastern attitudes towards life, philosophy, society and so on. It occurred to me there was one thing he hadn’t mentioned, maybe because it wasn’t so pronounced at that time: While the ‘Western’ corporate society perceives the ability to multitask as a prerequisite for a successful life, Zen claims that the way is the exact opposite: being able to fully concentrate on the one thing a person is doing at the particular moment.
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