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…acquiescence to a single way of understanding something means that you stop attending to reality, go on autopilot, and squelch any fresh ideas about how to do things better, or at least in your own way.
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…research shows that you often attend to and learn things without even trying.
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…exercise attention as if it were a muscle… like other skills, it can be improved with old-fashioned training.
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Whenever you put yourself in circumstances that really suit who you are… your brain releases dopamine: the neurochemical that’s… so important to attention, cognition, the ability to anticipate pleasure and reward, and much else.
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As the term workaholic suggests, the rapt attention and motivation inspired by a goal can resemble an addiction.
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Whatever your motivation – attention is the link between your goal and the resources you bring to it.
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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 the short term, the interplay of attention and motivation is crucial to taking care of business, and in the long term, it helps to make you who you are.
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…the awareness of true reality is an experience, not an idea, that in fact requires a ‘radical refusal of thoughts’ in favor of a simple state of attending to the moment.
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In everyday life, most opportunities to build character are modest in scope and easily missed if you’re not paying attention.
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