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The way we live is eroding our capacity for deep, sustained, perceptive attention – the building blocks of intimacy, wisdom, and cultural progress.
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As our attentional skills are squandered, we are plunging into a culture of mistrust, skimming, and a dehumanizing merging between man and machine.
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…nothing is more central to creating a flourishing society built upon learning, contentment, caring, morality, reflection, and spirit than attention.
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As humans, we are formed to pay attention. Without it, we simply would not survive.
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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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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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…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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Attention helps us understand and make sense of the world and is crucial as a first step to creating memory.
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If attention makes us human, then long-term memory makes each of us an individual.
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When we divide our attention while trying to encode or retrieve memories, we do so about as well as if we were drunk or sleep deprived.
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