Focus
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Focus
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In The World Beyond Your Head, Matthew Crawford called attention “the thing that is most one’s own” because what we pay attention to determines what is real to us, what is “actually present to our consciousness.” Just as we become what we eat, our reality becomes what we pay attention to. And just like our appetite has been hijacked by food... See more
focus is not just a matter of the eyes but of the whole body and mind, of our entire being becoming more present and attuned to the world around us.
— “Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees” by Lawrence Weschler (about the artist Robert Irwin)
Reggie James • Ask The Same Question
Mark Zuckerberg on the importance of focus. Google+ is a good example.
Being alive consists of nothing more than the sum of what we pay attention to.
sari azout • My Favorite Questions
Why do some people achieve so many of the things they want, and others not? Do people have a fixed budget of things they can achieve in a lifetime? It doesn’t seem so. Rather, it seems like our achievement budget is a function of the number of priorities we have. Interestingly, it seems to be a nonlinear function. Meaning that if you go from 4... See more