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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.”