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 y Christian Monks
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DESCRIPTION:Professor\, Jamie Kreiner\n\nLate Antiquity\, Middle Ages\, Uni
 versity of California\, Los Angeles\n\n \n\nWe are not alone in our distra
 ction. Even early Christian\n\nmonks — women and men who had given up ne
 arly everything in order to concentrate on God — still found themselves 
 struggling to concentrate. But rather than surrender in desperation\, they
  devoted considerable creative energy to find ways to fight back. This lec
 ture surveys the interlocking strategies that monks developed to deal with
  distraction\, to come to grips with a complex world in which their minds 
 couldn't stop moving.
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SUMMARY:Dealing with Distraction: The Struggles and Strategies of Early Chr
 istian Monks
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 truggles-and-strategies-of-early-christian-monks
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