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Rapt:
…your ability to focus on this and suppress that is the key to controlling your experience and, ultimately, your well-being.
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Rapt:
Paying rapt attention… increases your capacity for concentration, expands your inner boundaries, and lifts your spirits, but more important, it simply makes you feel that life is worth living.
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Rapt:
…no matter who you are, your joie de vivre mostly derives from paying attention to someone or something that interests you.
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Rapt:
The real problem is that we don’t appreciate our own ability to use attention to select and create truly satisfying experience.
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Rapt:
…when you lose focus, your mind tends to fix on what could be wrong with your life instead of what’s right, putting you in a bad frame of mind.
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Rapt:
Contrary to the messages from our wired, workaholic culture, multitasking is a myth.
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Rapt:
All day long, you focus on what seems most important – and suppress what doesn’t…
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Rapt:
…if you want to master and retain certain material… you’d best really pay attention to it in the first place.
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Rapt:
…a high-value idea or emotion is as compelling as a flash of lightning or a volley of thunder, and it biases the competition for your attention so thoroughly that everything else fades into the background.
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…focusing on negative emotions, particularly when they don’t serve their primary purpose of promoting problem-solving, exacts a high cost: you spend a lot of time feeling crummy even if your life is pretty good.
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