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Perhaps attention is the true missing key to better learning.

We are eroding attention – the most crucial building block of wisdom, memory, and ultimately the key to societal progress.

In attention, we find the powers of selection and focus we so badly need in order to carve knowledge from the vast, shifting, and ebbing oceans of information that surround us.

From attention, we glean the will and the tenacity to create lives of meaning and culture marked by reason and vision.

Joint attention is a ‘meeting of the minds’ that is critical to social, language, and cognitive development…

Executive attention is a key to turning back a tide of distraction.

…used well and nurtured carefully, our networks of attention are our foremost means to shaping our lives.

…we don’t always want to exercise our highest powers of attention, yet if we cannot focus, observe, or judge well, the choice is lost.

…fueling self-management is yet another way that our attentional skills allow us to live in an astoundingly complex world without falling constant prey to distraction.

In any great business, most of the details you closely attend to are ones that only a tiny, tiny percentage of people will notice.