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Researchers set out to discover which common attention hacks really work. They found a 5-minute break from thinking is all you need to get your concentration back. There is no need for a walk along a river, or a lengthy video of bamboo forests swaying in the wind (although that could be nice). A five-minute total break will do the trick. New research has found a simple, unstructured five-minute break from a complex task is all you need to get your concentration back or restore attention. "If you want your work or study to be more productive, you need to...

Huh? What? Oh, excuse me. What were we discussing? Crickets? Top Ramen? It's all a blur. Gimme the drugs. Now. See how easy that was? I have now been marked as a man afflicted by the newest -- and for my money the very best -- disorder ever. Well, at least ever since the pharmaceutical profession realized that you can peddle a whole slew of drugs if you just come up with a popular enough -- if questionable -- syndrome and advertise it on television. I speak, of course, of the scourge of Adult Attention Deficit Disorder, which the drug...