it's one, some 100 tention to authors who have been persecuted for exercising their right to free expression. its german center helps them in germany. their countries which are always at the bottom of the list. its last in terms of freedom of expression. and every tree is not for 10 years in the last 3 or 4 years turkey's gotten much worse and remains level each year and international documents. writers have been imprisoned or subjected to other restrictions, you know. but there are also many cases we knew nothing. of example, in china, even sentences are executed. very rarely does work. sometimes when joe ching feels lonely, he goes for a stroll. being out nature calms him helps him clear his mind in focus. came to germany 12 years ago. he's lived in berlin for the past 8. and like nature. but i don't feel too home in one particular place. i have no special connection to a certain place on earth. i've lived in most in the u.s. with up and in beaching. here in germany, a woman i live here in there. i think that stems from my time in jail. since then, i have this sense of restlessness. under

the pressure that someone so relatively new to politics and certainly never expected that kind of tention before and was bound to crack under the strain of it. >>. [inaudible] >> that one i didn't argue againstunfortunately i argued for . we had managed to come out of the convention with a five or six foot meetg on obama, part of e convention which ually dissipated and but by the end of september or late september, we were i thought very competitive ar that we still had a chance and i thought what was that horrible environment for the publican candidate . president bush, bless him not entirely his fault but was ve unpopular, he had terrible numbers and was easy to pay the republican nominee as george bush is but i think the famous polling formulation right track wrong track i think it was 88 wrong track, i don't think even now with covid-19 covid-19 it would be anywhere near that. and then lehman brothers collapsed and we just did ea other like what can we possibly do salvage this situatn? we knew we were out of ideas that point and we said looks like we're goingo put country first and le

psychologists like stephen calhoun tell us when we are asking students in o classroom to pay directed tention directed attention the captain argu here provides, requires effort. itlays a central role in our abityto focus . some of the time at least we were talking about you can throw it away from us but the one here is the one i want to focus on that. it's susceptible to tea so attention gradually fades over tim it requires more and me effort for us to pay attention overhecourse of an experience . this is true of any kind experience . it varies in intensity, some more than others. they s students can't pay attention er the course ofa 70 minutlecture, they can't but their attention will also fade over thecourse of the 70 minutediscussion. that's just how our attention works. prolonged effort leads to directed attention fatigue . so we want to thk about that. course , great article that organizers post from harvard business review pnt out this is especially true of zm fatigue and one of the things i love in the article is the fact thaon resume reading or resume classroom, we a looking at fas th