How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love
“By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. By a kind of alienating, fragmenting and focal attention, you can reduce humanity – or art, sex, humour, or religion – to nothing. You can so alienate yourself from a poem that you stop seeing the poem at all, and instead come to see in its place ... See more
The Matter With Things Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
One thing I have learned about attention is that certain forms of it are contagious. When you spend enough time with someone who pays close attention to something (if you were hanging out with me, it would be birds), you inevitably start to pay attention to some of the same things. I’ve also learned that patterns of attention—what we choose to noti
... See moreJenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
"Attention changes what kind of a thing comes into being for us: in that way, it changes the world."
– Dr. Iain McGilchrist
Like fingers pointing to the moon, other diverse disciplines from anthropology to education, behavioral economics to family counseling, similarly suggest that the skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
