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A culture of divided attention fuels more than perpetual searching for lost threads and loose ends.
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…myriad experiments show that, as people pay less attention to what and how they eat, they are increasingly prey to marketers of abundance.
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By choosing surveillance-based attention, we are ushering in an age of mistrust. This is the first collective loss we will suffer by cultivating a culture of distraction.
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Today we firmly depend on our powers of visual attention to understand our environment. The eyes have it, we’ve come to believe.
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In many ways, knowing when and when not to watch one another, physically and socially, is a difficult dance of attention.
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Nothing much happens if you’re on the outside looking in, because learning to read requires a miraculous feat of brain circuitry, fueled by a crucial and equally invisible ingredient: attention.
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Reading literally and in a larger sense is an act of will, spirit, attention, and confidence.
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For if any two cognitive capabilities lie at the core of our identities, they are attention and memory, whose mysteries have only recently begun to be unlocked.
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We begin to forget how to pay attention to one another deeply and begin to attend more to fallacy and artifice. Trust, depth of thought, and finally a spirit of humanity begin to be lost.
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Ghostly, mysterious, and inextricably linked to attention, memory is a key player in the eternal background between past and future.
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