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Today we firmly depend on our powers of visual attention to understand our environment. The eyes have it, we’ve come to believe.

This physical fusion with the machine empowers us and yet risks narrowing us in ways that may be hard to imagine.

Without the powers of focus, awareness, and judgment that fuel self-control, we cannot fend off distractions, set goals, manage a complex, changing environment, and ultimately shape the trajectory of our lives.

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.

…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.

…public speaking is a leadership skill. Being able to communicate your own excitement is a powerful way to engage the people who work for and with you, and to infect them with energy and a sense of purpose.

A lot of good comes from empowering the most junior staff.

There is such power when a leader can admit to their mistakes and apologize for them.

…repeated exposure to information in spaced intervals provides the most powerful way to fix memory into the brain.

Puzzles solved have far more penetration and staying power than chores completed.