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Whatever your age or gender, the great obstacle to enjoying the moment’s delights is not paying attention to them.
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216 |
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Attending to pleasure is a reward in itself, but savoring also boosts your quotient of positive emotion, which in turn expands your focus and may confer health benefits…
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216 |
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When you pay more attention to your surroundings, the world begins to be filled with fascinating details you’ve never noticed before.
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104 |
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…decision makers give the most attention to information that is most compatible with the required answer.
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075 |
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Prior exposure to something (priming) lowers the threshold of attention, so that that something is more likely to be noticed.
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093 |
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Alcohol narrows an already limited scope of attention, a phenomenon that’s been dubbed alcohol myopia. This places yet tighter bounds on rationality.
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221 |
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…consumers pay too much attention to prices and not enough to the buying power that those prices represent. The signifier becomes more important than the signified.
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226 |
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In the absence of a vision, we are each driven by our own agenda, finding people whose interests match ours, and inattentive to those with whom we appear to have little in common.
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036 |
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A child is an exquisite attention-getting device, designed to sound an alarm at the first indication that he will be forgotten or relegated to a position where he does not count.
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082 |
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A child’s ability to control his position and the attention of others is critical, much more important than control is for the average adult on an average day.
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082 |
