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Maria Popova identifies herself as a "reader, writer, interestingness hunter-gatherer, and curious mind at large."  She started the Brain Pickings weekly e-newsletter in 2006 with an audience of 7 friends and it now gets millions of hits per month as she has become a widely followed 21st century thinker and curator.  The subject of her posts are as varied as Carol Dweck's Mindset, Sara Maitland's How to be Alone, a multitude of Oliver Sacks postings and many on Martin Luther King.

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Focus at Will: Improve Your Focus, 

Concentration and Productivity

Working on the Internet writing this month's enewsletter it's super easy to get distracted.  Focus at Will, a music subscription service, helps me stay on track.  "Attention, concentration, focus, flow... These are words associated with mental states that assist in doing work. If we can focus our attention, we might be able to concentrate long enough to reach flow state, and actually get some work done."  I prefer the Up Tempo but there are many categories including Alpha Chill, Classical and Cinematic.

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