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…attention’s selective nature guarantees that even in a close relationship, two partners often focus on different realities.
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By actively choosing endeavors that demand your total focus and skillfully using attention to make even inevitable rote chores more engaging, you can blur the distinction between work and play – a hallmark of the focused life.
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Either attention or motivation – the drive that impels you toward a goal – can jump-start flow, but both of these major psychological processes must converge to sustain it.
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The antidote to leisure-time ennui is to pay as much attention to scheduling a productive evening or weekend as you do to your workday.
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Whenever you squander attention on something that doesn’t put your brain through its paces and stimulate change, your mind stagnates a little and life feels dull.
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…attention orders but also limits your experience, which can be tricky where big decisions are concerned.
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How you decide to spend your time and make other choices that affect your quality of life is closely bound up with attention…
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In an age of constant assaults on your attention, sanity requires that you tune out many of them, beginning with those from your own communications devices.
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…whenever you engage in a creative activity, you boost your level of positive emotion, which in turn literally widens your attentional range, giving you more material to work with.
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Mindful attention helps you work more effectively and creatively, but it also makes life more fun.
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