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    <span class="ss-mag-caption">Photo · Iris Hawthorne for The Quarterly</span>
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    <span class="ss-mag-section">SECTION 04 / ESSAY</span>
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      The <em>quiet</em> art of<br />doing one thing<br />at a <em>time.</em>
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    <span class="ss-mag-byline">By <b>Iris Hawthorne</b> · Spring 2026</span>
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      <span class="ss-mag-drop">A</span>fter a decade of optimizing every minute, the loneliest
      realization wasn't that I had no time. It was that I'd forgotten how to spend it. Three years
      ago I made a small commitment, and it changed everything I thought I knew about productivity.
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      "The thing about doing one thing at a time is that the thing finally gets your attention."
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    <p class="ss-mag-out">What I learned was simpler than I expected — and harder to keep.</p>
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      <li><b>12 min</b> read</li>
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