More on distraction, in fact on its opposite

Laura Miller at Salon, one of my favourite reviewers, writes on April 29, with her usual erudite brio, about a modern predicament, ‘the withering away of the ability to think about one thing for a prolonged period of time.’ Her review of Winifred Gallagher’s Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life explains that the book ‘explores this puzzle, identifying both biological and cultural causes for our sometimes self-defeating habits.’ She categorises it as belonging to ‘a school of nonfiction . . . that aims to walk the line between social science and self-help.’ Damon Young’s Distraction, which I’m using to explore philosophy and art and much else (under the ‘Destination’ of Undistraction) similarly refers to empirical evidence for our inability to concentrate. With that complementarity in mind, and Laura Miller’s endorsement, how can I resist getting Rapt?