It's interesting that you put it that way, because I also feel discipline is overrated too. :-) That said, I'm by far not saying that attention is unimportant

It's interesting that you put it that way, because I also feel discipline is overrated too. :-) That said, I'm by far not saying that attention is unimportant. I'm just saying that it doesn't deserve the importance we assign it. Also, I would like to see evidence that scheduling distractions like that still yields the same creativity benefit. Scheduling your distractions would seem to defeat the purpose, wouldn't it? Planning for unstructured time isn't the same as not paying attention. It's paying attention to something random, which isn't the same thing as not paying attention.