I found meditation really did help me a lot in graduate school. And I'm talking only 5 to 10 minutes a day.

It shouldn't be so surprising that an ability to concentrate is a skill that can be improved, and that the best way to improve a skill is to directly practice it!

> The point of not being able to read a whole book seems like bunk to me, though, since I read for recreation, and it takes the amount of time it takes. I can't sit and read a whole book, just like I can't sit and watch a whole season of a television show.

I don't that's what the article refers to -- it's finishing the book at all, not just in one sitting.