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Distracted:
…anything that we want to learn must be entered into our long-term memory stories, cognitive work that can take days and even months to accomplish.
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093 |
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Distracted:
Attention helps us understand and make sense of the world and is crucial as a first step to creating memory.
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094 |
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Distracted:
To build memory is to construct a treasure trove of experience, wisdom, and pertinent information.
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094 |
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Distracted:
If attention makes us human, then long-term memory makes each of us an individual.
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094 |
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Distracted:
When we divide our attention while trying to encode or retrieve memories, we do so about as well as if we were drunk or sleep deprived.
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094 |
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Distracted:
A culture of divided attention fuels more than perpetual searching for lost threads and loose ends.
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094 |
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Distracted:
The traits that foreigners both detest and adore in us – our informality, friendliness, instability, and restlessness – owe much to the idea of movement… – George Pierson
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100 |
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Distracted:
Nomads are our alter ego, a personification of escape from the gray flannel suit and the tract home.
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108 |
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Distracted:
A society defined by movement, not settlement, does not prize permanence.
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111 |
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Distracted:
The Global Soul is proud of her ability to feel at home anywhere and yet dreads turning a corner and finding her fragile sense of equanimity torn from her.
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112 |
