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CrazyBusy:
Always valuable, your attention has now also become one of your most insecure assets and most-sought-after possessions.
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CrazyBusy:
Most of the time we pay attention for reasons other than that we decided to. We are seduced, tantalized, subliminally redirected, unintentionally engaged by some extraneous stimulus, or focused on some task because we are compelled to be.
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CrazyBusy:
Only by deliberately deciding what to attend can you protect yourself against having your attention stolen.
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CrazyBusy:
Attention is like money: If we don’t watch how we spend it, we waste it.
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CrazyBusy:
The injunction ‘Be here now,’ which on the face of it sounds impossible not to do, is in fact difficult because of the many magnets pulling attention anywhere but here.
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CrazyBusy:
These days a person has to both get to the point fast and keep the point simple, no matter how complex it is. The problem is that life has never been more complex.
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CrazyBusy:
What it takes to please now is trickier than ever because the competition is so clever.
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CrazyBusy:
…even arresting facts may not arrest us because we have grown so accustomed to reading or hearing them.
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CrazyBusy:
Instead of thoughtful lives they savor, people are in danger of living superficial, sound-bite lives they barely notice, let alone savor.
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CrazyBusy:
By doing what we imagine the smartest people are doing, we may be doing it all wrong.
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