Reclaim The Brain

My attention is shot. I’d like to have another go. Things about focus, the ruination of focus, ADHD, and paying attention.

David Pennington

But boredom is when life happens.

Nick Catucci • You might just have to be bored

Mary Oliver said, “Attention is the beginning of devotion.”

Hi, I'm Meg. I write about what I see.

Attention is first philosophy—

Philosophy is not only a system of thought but a mode of attentiveness, an exercised openness to what exceeds us yet calls us to deeper participation. Its systematic aspects are downstream of this attentiveness, and can certainly become a scaffolding by which others can train their own attention, but it is at its root... See more

Adam Robbert • Attention is First Philosophy

THE POORLY DEFINED PROBLEM OF BEING ALIVE

Adam Mastroianni • Why Aren't Smart People Happier?

The point Klinenberg wanted to make was this: If there was no such thing as a library, and someone proposed it today, there's a 99.9% chance they and their “radical and crazy idea” would be laughed out of the room.

But, as we know, it’s not a crazy idea.

Andy Olin • Public libraries are the crazy, radical ideas that might save society | Kinder Institute for Urban Research

Most of us have a hard limit on the number of focused sessions we can do each day.

Chris Guillebeau • Executive Functioning and the Limits of Hyperfocus

The Ecology of Attention

Lia Purpura agnionline.bu.edu

If you do not deep read, you do not cultivate a capacity to think, imagine, and create; you therefore may not realize that anything more satisfying than a video game even exists.

Adam Garfinkle • The Erosion of Deep Literacy

PTSD is literally defined as being “marked by an inability to construct a coherent story of our past.”