#attention

#attention

"Reading has been unfairly maligned as an indoor activity for far too long. As a child, when nice weather came around, I was told to put down my book and go play outside."

I see the way you are holding that truck, from the top, so you can see how the wheels turn. So smart!

I have come to see that where people place their attention often predicts the direction of their outcomes.

The phenomenon of mind blanking has a specific brain activity pattern resembling sleep, highlighting the inevitable nature of these mental lapses.

That's how severely I don't like being the center of attention. That's all it comes back to. I don't want to be the focus of anything.

Attention has become the ultimate commodity this century, and the art business has drilled this lesson deeper and deeper into its operating principles every year.

When making successive decisions, our judgement becomes poorer and poorer, a phenomenon known as decision fatigue, which reflects our cognitive limitations.

"Far too often, I find myself mindlessly twitch-clicking on an enticing headline, and then reading, and then regretting. I pay my attention; I instantly wish for a refund."