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
And where the so-called prosperity gospel would have us believe that our desire is the primary engine of manifesting, I am here to tell you that it is in fact our ability to direct our attention.
James Doty • Mind Magic
direct our attention
- 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
Because attention determines what will or will not appear in consciousness, and because it is also required to make any other mental events—such as remembering, thinking, feeling, and making decisions—happen there, it is useful to think of it as psychic energy. Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work it is
... See moreMihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
“We create ourselves by how we invest this energy.”
Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On
Henrik Karlssonhenrikkarlsson.xyz
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
People have always lived in their own realities. A person’s intuition helps them decide what to pay attention to, how to perceive the world, and what to value.