attention
The kind of attention we pay actually alters the world: we are, literally, partners in creation
from The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
attention
This, to me, is the proper role of attention. Attention must be in service to eros, or soul (my names for the structures of consciousness that attune us to Reality's desires for us). If we "worship" things out of animal craving, or boredom, or cultural habits, or social shoulds , or other such unconscious urgings, we're misusing one of our greatest... See more
River Kenna • Attention as Worship
One of the special things about human consciousness is that we can shape it. We can choose to bend and sculpt our consciousness through attention. Which, if you entertain a worldview similar to mine, means that we can sculpt Reality's intelligent drive towards Life & evolution by choosing what we attend to and how we attend to it.
Attention as Worship
90 percent of success is not getting distracted.
—Farnham Street
Haruki Murakami: siła prostoty i obsesji, czyli jak biegać, pisać i żyć
Przemek Gerschmannsubstack.com
When you choose whom to follow on Twitter, you’re choosing what types of mindsets and aesthetics to expose yourself to on a regular basis. You’re choosing what types of conversations to have. You’re choosing to be reminded regularly of certain things, and not of others. This is a kind of Programmable attention.
Programmable attention
“Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind.”
—Epictetus
Gurwinder • Stoicism: The Ancient Remedy to the Modern Age
- I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
I paid attention to things I liked to do → again it starts from attention