Magic Words for Earning Attention
Attention is a limited resource. Paying attention to one thing necessarily comes at the expense of another.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
Attention doesn’t matter if people don’t care about what you’re doing. If all you’re looking for is attention, don’t bother with all of this business stuff: skipping down the street in a pink bunny suit while yelling at the top of your lungs will get you all the attention you’ll ever want. When it comes to business, however, some kinds of attention
... See moreJosh Kaufman • The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
“Attention is the first step in the learning process. We cannot understand, learn or remember that which we do not first attend to.” —CDL, Center for Development & Learning[3]
Devin Hunt • The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
Attention is contagious. What forms of it, as individuals and as a society, do we want to cultivate? What kinds of mediums would that cultivation require?
Ezra Klein • I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil
― Simone Weil
Carissa Potter • How to feel alive again.
- "But to listen is to act; of that, there’s no doubt. It takes effort and doesn’t happen by default."