attention is sacred
exploring the sacred nature of "attention"
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attention is sacred
"The information you consume each day is the soil from which your future thoughts are grown."
The life we call “normal” isn’t normal at all. A spouse and kids, a mortgage, a 9-to-5 job... who said that was life? What’s so great about working in a factory or a cubicle? You and I, who are artists and entrepreneurs, live a life that’s closer to natural, if you ask me. We migrate, too. We follow the muse instead of the sun.... See more
All addictions share,
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro – by Steven Pressfield
From Jorge Luis Borges:
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
“Our respect for attention is in decline. Timeless and eternal truths are forgotten in favor of breaking news and "what's trending."
Instead of deliberately choosing what to consume, we surrender to opaque algorithms that don’t always have our best interests in mind.
The alternative is an intentional and self-directed information diet - the pursuit
... See moreThis isn’t the same kind of attention we give to our Instagram and TikTok feeds. It is a ritualised form of intentional presence directed to a shared sense of meaning and history. In The Disappearance of Ritual , the philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues that our digital communication sacrifices this kind of deep attention and intensity with something... See more
Alexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and there for years. People slowed the spread of yellow fever; they sprayed... See more
Simon Sarris • Efforts and Goals and Joy
The Internet is Destroying Your Attention: How to Survive the Attention Economy
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