it’s about taking back control of your attention
by Kojo · updated 10d ago
it’s about taking back control of your attention
- Our mind is a contested bit of territory, with many people seeking to control what we call “the empire between your ears” in The Girl Who Would Be Free. Why? Because your brain, your attention, is valuable. People want you to think about certain things and not think about certain things–because it’s good for business, because it makes you easier to... See more
from Do You Dominate The Battlespace?
Kojo added 10d ago
- Epictetus’ father says that to be great, we first have to focus on “the empire between our ears.” He’s referring to our thoughts, our emotions, our urges, our desires, our fears...our own choices.
from Rule The Empire Between Your Ears
Kojo added 10d ago
- Because attention is scarce, it is valuable. Every media organization — big or small, reputable or untrustworthy — is using every tactic at hand to engage us.
They need our attention to sell ads and subscriptions, to create value for their brands so we will become loyal consumers of their products.Kojo added 14d ago
People who experience flow describe it as “a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems,” and their descriptions of the joy of that state are so compelling that Csikszentmihalyi has called it an “optimal experience.” Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to raci
... See morefrom Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Kojo added 20d ago
- Digital Minimalism: A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.
from Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
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The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things.
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
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Since hard choices are unavoidable, what matters is learning to make them consciously, deciding what to focus on and what to neglect, rather than letting them get made by default—or deceiving yourself that, with enough hard work and the right time management tricks, you might not have to make them at all.
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Kojo added 20d ago
knowledge workers operate as a state of “divided attention,” in which the mind rarely gets closure before switching tasks, creating a muddle of competing activations and inhibitions that all add up to reduce our performance.
from A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport
Kojo added 20d ago
The act of focusing our attention on a single thing (or at least attempting to do so) reveals to us how distracted we’ve been all along.
from The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life by Allison Fallon
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