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
The more fear we bring to an event, the more we are telling the amygdala that the salience of the event is very high and very threatening; and the less fear we bring, the less we are going to activate the threat salience, leaving our attention free to be directed as we choose.
James Doty • Mind Magic
“Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind.”
—Epictetus
Gurwinder • Stoicism: The Ancient Remedy to the Modern Age
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.
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.
Just a moment...
Haruki Murakami: siła prostoty i obsesji, czyli jak biegać, pisać i żyć
Przemek Gerschmannsubstack.com
Crucially for our purposes, the DMN is negatively correlated with the attention network (AN), meaning that the more it is activated, the less access we have to the power of our attention.
James Doty • Mind Magic
DMN - the default mode network
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
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