Alyssa Carrai
@alyssacarrai
Alyssa Carrai
If time is slipping through your fingers, the answer isn’t to mourn childhood - it’s to reawaken the part of you that paid attention.
why time felt slower when we were kids (and how to get it back)
attention and
In psychology there are at least two biases that drive this pattern. One is confirmation bias:23 seeing what we expect to see. The other is desirability bias:24 seeing what we want to see. These biases don’t just prevent us from applying our intelligence. They can actually contort our intelligence into a weapon against the truth.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
A Writing Practice to Help You Meet Yourself
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try to both absorb information and create — in other words, transform the knowledge your acquire into something else through the process of reflection, writing, videography, conversation, or connecting the knowledge to aspects of your life and other subjects you study. Through this process you make the knowledge your own. You remember more of it,... See more
Sam Rinko • How I Self-Study New Subjects: The Modern Autodidact System
A big mistake is resting on sheer willpower, it’s like telling yourself “I have to love someone” and it feels like an obligation. Learning outside school is mainly about desire.
How to Start Researching as a Hobby
This loss of agency over our own attention that many of us are experiencing is not about willpower. It’s about neuroscience
yana yuhai • How to Pay Attention Again
We’re spending more and more time on things, while feeling less and less in them.
Our presence is scattered, our focus fractured; and it often feels like a personal failing.
But attention is a limited resource. And it’s being constantly pulled (hijacked, really) by an ecosystem built to monetize distraction.
Our presence is scattered, our focus fractured; and it often feels like a personal failing.
But attention is a limited resource. And it’s being constantly pulled (hijacked, really) by an ecosystem built to monetize distraction.
yana yuhai • How to Pay Attention Again
dopamine isn’t just about pleasure; it’s about anticipation . In other words, it’s the thrill of what might be next that hooks you.