The Minecraft Method of Finding Your Focus

How to get things done when it feels like the zombies are always encroaching

Ashley Abramson
Forge
Published in
3 min readMar 9, 2021

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A person playing Minecraft on an XBOX connected to a monitor.
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Even though I’m not really one for video games, I can talk about Minecraft with the confidence of a much more seasoned gamer. I know, for example, that you can play in creative mode, which is all about world-building, or in survival mode, where your main goal is to…

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Ashley Abramson
Forge

Writer-mom hybrid. Health & psychology stories in NYT, WaPo, Allure, Real Simple, & more.