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Joey Dua is a BAMS student who runs Darakhtveda, an Indian Ayurvedic brand whose firstproduct is I-Care Eye Drops. He writes about eyes, screens and rest, including a plain-spoken guide to the 20-20-20 rule, in the way he is being trained to practice: say what is known, say what is not, and say which is which.

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What My Tired Eyes Taught Me About Paying Attention

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In my second year of Ayurvedic medical school, my eyes started burning around nine o’clock every night.

I did what most students do. I rubbed them, blinked hard a few times, and went back to the screen. Exams were close. The lecture slides were on my laptop, the reference texts were PDFs, and the practice questions were on my phone. My whole education had quietly moved onto glass, and I was reading it for twelve or thirteen hours a day.

The irony took me an embarrassingly long time to notice. By day I was memorizing Shalakya Tantra, the branch of …