Konzentration

"Without concentration, everything is nothing." The new book by bestselling author Volker Kitz on a topic of our time. Concentration allows us to learn, feel, and love. It enables us to understand one another and guides us to our innermost selves. However, increasing distractions are making it more fleeting and fragile. It’s high time for the ultimate reading book for anyone who wants to improve their concentration. Our ability to concentrate is rapidly declining. We observe this daily in ourselves and in others. More and more stimuli flood us, and studies suggest that electronic media are changing brain structure; our attention span seems to be in free fall. Consequently, many yearn to be able to focus quietly on something or even on themselves again. But what is concentration, really? How does it work? And what can we do to preserve it? Drawing from his personal experiences in a silent retreat in the Himalayas, bestselling author Volker Kitz embarks on an engaging journey through the biology, psychology, philosophy, and cultural history of concentration – including some concentration exercises. It’s a journey where Stephen King challenges Mozart, Goethe reveals a trick from the Italian art world, and a cat declines a birthday invitation. The route leads through the body, which plays a significant role in our ability to be attentive: from the eyes to the soles of the feet. The result is a delightful compendium that explains what a treasure our ability to concentrate is – and invites us to train it more.