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It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.
Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer
Born: Feb 11, 1957

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