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
by baja · updated 8d ago
attention
When we are in rest-and-digest, we feel calm and composed, we are open to connection with others and with our environment, and we have access to the higher-level functions of the neocortex, including abstract planning, creativity, and logical reasoning.
from Mind Magic by James Doty
baja added 4mo ago
But it does mean that, whether we are scientists or not, we can only know the world as we have inevitably shaped it by the nature of our attention.
from The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning by Iain McGilchrist
baja added 4mo ago
Is this the reason why there are so many traps for our attention?
- Looking closely is valuable at every scale. From looking closely at a sentence, a photograph, a building, a government. It scales and it cascades — one cognizant detail begets another and then another. Suddenly you’ve traveled very far from that first little: Huh.
I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get good at the huh i... See morefrom Looking Closely Is Everything by Craig Mod
baja added 2mo ago
- it’s important to be thoughtful about the kind of content we consume, because our thoughts will be full of whatever we choose
from Know Better, Do Better
baja added 4mo ago
- my tendency’s been to fixate on what’s difficult, painful, or scary in my experience, with a sincere desire to improve or change them. lately, i’m convinced there’s a better option: to shift my attention to what's good, beautiful, and pleasurable & allow those to saturate my life
baja added 3mo ago
- “ping minimalism” ; small acts of digital resistance underpinned by the idea that attention is the most valuable asset we have, and must be protected at all cost.
from idle gaze 067: slowpunk by Alexi Gunner
baja added 2mo ago
- We like to think of external reality as being absolute, but experience is always subjective because of how we shape it through how, where, and when we choose to look and the preconceived ideas we hold about what we are seeing.
from Just a moment...
baja added 4mo ago
- Steve Jobs energy transference was so strong it was labelled a Reality Distortion Field. He could bend other people's perception of reality with one interaction. I don't think this is some mystical woo-woo energy. It's a combination of intensity, frame, belief, body language, optimism and vocal tonality.
baja added 3mo ago
- We can explore the ways in which our attention is generated, manipulated, valued and degraded. Sometimes attention might simply be a lens through which to read the events of the moment. But it can also force us toward a better understanding of how our minds work or how we value our time and the time of others. Perhaps, just by acknowledging its pre... See more
from Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times by nytimes.com
baja added 4mo ago