Paying Attention
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Paying Attention
To pay Attention means to pay attention to it all, to engage actively, to use all of our senses, to take in everything around us, including those things that don’t appear when they rightly should. It means asking questions and making sure we get answers. (Before I even go to buy that car or cell phone, I should ask: what are the features I care abo
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Consider what is involved when we give our attention to some object. There is the act of noticing, which forms the initial bond between the object and the mind of the observer, and this initial act of noticing can unfold in countless ways. But giving our attention to something also suggests some measure of duration. I may notice something without g... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Face Stares Back
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Normally, when we pay attention to someone or something, we undertake what Weil calls a “muscular effort”: our eyes lock on another’s eyes, our expressions reflect the proper response, and our bodies shift in relation to the object to which we are paying attention. This kind of attention flourishes in therapists’ offices, business schools, and fune... See more
Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention
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muscular effort vs reflective attention
Attention is about every one of your senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch. It is about taking in as much as we possibly can, through all of the avenues available to us. It is about learning not to leave anything out—anything, that is, that is relevant to the goals that you’ve set. And it is about realizing that all of our senses affect us—an
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W. H. Auden: “Choice of attention—to pay attention to this and ignore that—is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.” Pay attention, or accept the consequences of your failure. “I
Maria Konnikova • The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Attention is a limited resource. Paying attention to one thing necessarily comes at the expense of another.
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“The art of paying attention, the great art,” says the philosopher Alain (1868–1951), “supposes the art of not paying attention, which is the royal art.”
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine …
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