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9 Ways to ‘Rewild Your Attention’
The action items to take from this essay would therefore be threefold:
- Go outside and touch some grass . Continue to do so until the urge to open Twitter disappears.
- Double and triple down on your individuality: Know yourself enough to know what is special. Improve that for years and years. Ignore everything else. Over time this will result in a ve
every.to • The Addiction Economy
Whatever you pay attention to is being fermented by your brain…Every tweet you read, every newspaper you glance at, every show you watch, every email you skim, it’s all feeding your subconscious things to process. And whatever it’s fed, it will ferment into ideas and reactions. So if you want to come up with better ideas, you must get extremely str... See more
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
we can’t consume every bit of this information stream. We will quickly be exhausted and overwhelmed if we try. We need to adopt the perspective of a curator, stepping back from the raging river and starting to make intentional decisions about what information we want to fill our minds. Like a scientist capturing only the rarest butterflies to take
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Second, by not letting algorithms decide what deserves your attention. If you want to feel creatively and intellectually alive, stop mindlessly consuming the internet and start mindfully curating it. You need a space away from social media's compulsive rhythm, where your ideas can grow at their own pace.
Sari Azout • What matters in the age of AI is taste
If it’s attention (deciding what to pay attention to) that makes our reality, regaining control of it can also mean the discovery of new worlds and new ways of moving through them.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
