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Will and Attention (Meghan O'Gieblyn)

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As a person who loves a few people struggling with addictions, this book has been the most profound exploration of the lived experience of those addictions. I can’t claim to understand what it feels like and I can still be frustrated, but this book has helped increase my empathy.

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Mike Newman2mo ago

This book isn’t out yet, but based on this excerpt published in Harper’s, I have little fear I’ll regret recommending it. The way O’Gieblyn expresses our conundrum with willpower — that it is the act of overcoming the simultaneous desire for two things that stand in direct opposition to each other — really hit me. Update: I’ve now read the book. I was right — it’s wonderful.

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