This Is How to Live Well | Don't Let Your Attention Slide
In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
Alexi Gunner • idle gaze 067: slowpunk
am interested in a disciplined deepening of attention.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Perhaps that is why so many of us have half-done tasks on our to-do lists and half-read books on our bedside tables, scroll through Instagram while simultaneously semi-watching Netflix, and swipe between apps and tabs endlessly, from when we first open our eyes until we finally fall asleep. One uncomfortable explanation for why so many aspects of m
... See moreCasey Cep • What Monks Can Teach Us About Paying Attention
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 the other hand, just is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attent... See more