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…without strong skills of attention, we are buffeted by the world and hindered in our capacity to grow and even to enjoy life.
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023 |
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In updating our definitions of family for a new age, we’ve traded security for freedom and swapped the group for a loose network of kin.
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060 |
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The physical and virtual worlds are always with us, singing a siren song of connection, distraction, and options.
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063 |
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Relying on multitasking as a way of life, we chop up our opportunities and abilities to make big-picture sense of the world and pursue our long-term goals.
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081 |
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Attention helps us understand and make sense of the world and is crucial as a first step to creating memory.
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094 |
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We’ve moved from a premodern world of competing and conflicting sights, odors, sounds, and tactile experience to an era of separate sensory experiences dominated by our most intellectual and distanced sense: vision…
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121 |
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Watching and tracking and monitoring provides comforting evidence – the snapshot, the print-out, the fix on a map – of ‘presence’ in a virtual, mobile, split-focus world.
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129 |
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…the measurement and management of risk is more central to our culture than ever before, as the unavoidable cost of navigating a world that we feel that we can actively shape…
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130 |
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…we aren’t the all-seeing species that we think. Perception of all kinds is really a construct and so only a rough and incomplete snapshot of the world.
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139 |
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Children need space to experiment in a world of mutable selves, relations, and institutions, and they need to be given the chance to build… ‘active trust’ born of mutual disclosure. – Anthony Giddens
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150 |
