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…whenever a team shifts focus to a new growth lever, it’s important to dive into the data with fresh eyes looking for insights specific to their new mission.
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The key to making good additions [to your product] is to focus intensely on offering customers the benefits they find most valuable and are willing to pay for, not just bolting on more choices…
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240 |
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People who focus well report feeling less fear, frustration, and sadness day to day, partly because they can literally deploy their attention away from negatives in life.
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023 |
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Today, our virtual, split-screen, and nomadic era is eroding opportunities for deep focus, awareness, and reflection. As a result, we face a real risk of societal decline.
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…even for those of us with healthy brains, focus itself creates a kind of blindness. When we shine our attentional spotlight on an object, the rest of the scene doesn’t go blank, but its suppression is truly dramatic.
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078 |
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As much as we try to focus on pursuing our goals, at heart we are biased to remain alert to shifts – especially abrupt ones – in our environment.
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079 |
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When we multitask, we are like swimmers diving into a state of focus, resurfacing to switch gears or reassess the environment, then diving again to resume focus.
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079 |
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To breed children for a world of split focus is to raise generations who will have ceded cognitive control of their days.
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092 |
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We endeavor to hustle past the limitations of the clock via a split-focused life, and we lose our anchoring and hence our sense of self in a blurred life broken from place.
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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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