Some people concentrate better with the aid of white noise, music, Ritalin or coffee. Prof. Ari Rappoport was able to focus seriously with the aid of cancer. After learning that what was hampering his breathing was a particularly lethal form of cancer, he sat down and finished six academic articles within a few weeks.

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