Pay Attention! (Your Body Will Thank You) - Freakonomics
Attention, on 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 especiall
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Life is full of suffering. It’s unevenly distributed in tragic ways — I would never dispute that. But even the best and luckiest and most privileged life has an unfortunate share of suffering in it. And there are choices to be made: How much do we focus on it? How much do we dwell on it? How much do we speak of it? How do we speak of it? And how mu... See more
Opinion | Our Lives Are an Endless Series of ‘And’
But … that’s the entire point. It’s easy to blow things out of proportion, to get lost in the story you tell yourself, and to think that your entire life hinges on one thing you’ll barely remember 5 or 10 years later.