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The brain learns and remembers best when focus is greatest. Video games focus attention… That presents an opportunity for training the brain.

The antidote for mind wandering is meta-awareness, attention to attention for itself, as in the ability to notice that you are not noticing what you should, and correcting your focus. 197 Meta-awareness, Attention, Focus, Correction http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-197-1.png
Focus Almost any variety of meditation, in essence, retrains our habits of attention – particularly the routine default of a wandering mind. 198 Meditation, Habits, Attention, Training http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-198-1.png
Focus Enhanced executive function widens the gap between impulse and action, in part by building meta-awareness, the capacity to observe our mental processes… 199 Executives,Impulses, Action, Aswareness, Observations http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-199-1.png
Focus …data suggests mindfulness boosts both self-awareness and empathy. 200 Mindfulness, Self-awareness, Empathy http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-200-1.png
Focus Mindlessness, in the form of mind wandering, may be the single biggest waste of attention in the workplace. 202 Mindfulness, Attention http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-202a-1.png
Focus Focus on our experience in the here and now… demands that we tune down the all-about-myself murmurs of mind stuff irrelevant to what’s going on right now. 202 Focus, Experience, Self-awareness http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-202b-1.png
Focus Mindfulness develops our capacity to observe our moment-to-moment experience in an impartial, nonreactive manner. 202 Mindfulness, Capacity, Observations http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-202c-1.png
Focus Building executive control helps especially for those of us for whom every setback, hurt, or disappointment creates endless cascades of rumination. 202 Executives, Control, Disappointment, Rumination http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-202d-1.png
Focus Mindfulness lets us break the stream of thoughts that might otherwise lead to wallowing in misery, by changing our relationship to thought itself. 203 Mindfulness, Thinking, Relationships http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-203a-1.png
Focus …mindfulness practice strengthens focus, particularly executive control, working memory capacity, and ability to sustain attention. 203 Mindfulness, Practice, Focus, Executives, Control, Memory, Attention http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-203b-1.png
Focus Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.”

Attention in organizations, as with individuals, has a limited capacity. Organizations… have to choose where to allocate attention, focusing on this while ignoring that.

The bar for attracting attention rises continually; what was dazzling last month seems boring today.

Stories do more than grab our attention: they keep it.

Leadership itself hinges on effectively capturing and directing the collective attention.

We pay careful attention in moments that matter most to us. But amid the din and distraction of work life, poor listening has become epidemic.

…there’s a hidden ingredient in any true solution: enhancing our attention and understanding – in ourselves, in others, in our communities and societies.

When we focus attention on something, we immediately come to see it as more significant to us.

Every meeting, email, and phone call fragments attention and prevents real work from getting done.