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Four Thousand Weeks
The overarching point is that what we think of as ‘distractions’ aren’t the ultimate cause of our being distracted. They’re just the places we go to seek relief from the discomfort of confronting limitation.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
‘variable rewards’: when you can’t predict whether or not refreshing the screen will bring new posts to read, the uncertainty makes you more likely to keep trying, again and again and again, just as you would on a slot machine.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
the distracted person isn’t really choosing at all. Their attention has been commandeered by forces that don’t have their highest interests at heart.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
the other hand, just is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention. At the end of your life, looking back, whatever compelled your attention from moment to moment is simply what your life will have been. So when you pay attention to something you don’t especially value, it’s
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Definition of attention.
describe attention as a ‘resource’ is to subtly misconstrue its centrality in our lives. Most other resources on which we rely as individuals – such as food, money and electricity – are things that facilitate life, and in some cases it’s possible to live without them, at least for a while. Attention, on
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
according to one calculation, by the psychologist Timothy Wilson, we’re capable of consciously attending to about4 0.0004 per cent of the information bombarding our brains at any given moment.
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Amazing data about attention.
what you pay attention to will define, for you, what reality is.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
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Use this in the Capturing Beast. The more I think about the Capturing Beast, the more I think the name is incorrect. It's not a Capturing Model. It's an attention model. It tells us the things we should pay attention to, and that is how we should structure our life, based on Time Management.As our life is time-limited, we need to decide what we pay attention to. The Capturing Beast helps us on that, as it givrs the best structure possible to our lives, based on what we should pay attention to, the things we should dedicate the time to.THIS CONCLUSION IS GREAT!!!It kills many birds with just one stone:- It gives a structure to better understand our life, so we create boundaries to understand it, to know the things we should pay attention to.- It tells us what to capture, removing the noise and always creating signal.- It brings us joy, as we know we're dedicating our time to the things we matter the most. We forget about FOMO because we understand we cannot dedicate today attentuon to everything , as it's literally impossible. The good news? We ensure you are dedicating the time to the things you care the most. You're making the best out of your time.- The moment you know what you care the most, you start making the time for that. That gives meaning to every action you do, especially when you see the outcomes, the results. Example: our book. We decided it was a project. We made the time. We are happy with the end result. We know we made the best use possible about our time.
the ‘joy of missing out’: the recognition that the renunciation of alternatives is what makes their choice a meaningful one in the first place.
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Be happy with your choice, understanding any other will also have problems and struggles. Much better to keep pushing hard in the choice to the limits than thinking other option will be better.The moment I fully focus on the positive aspects of the choice, fears from not being the right choice fade away.
cause of your difficulties isn’t that your partner is especially flawed, or that the two of you are especially incompatible, but that you’re finally noticing all the ways in which your partner is (inevitably) finite, and thus deeply disappointing by comparison with the world of your fantasy, where the limiting rules of reality don’t apply.
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The reality of relationships: fantasy will always beat reality. Fantasy is endless. Reality is finite. This is what happens with time.