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The antidote to leisure-time ennui is to pay as much attention to scheduling a productive evening or weekend as you do to your workday.
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Whenever you squander attention on something that doesn’t put your brain through its paces and stimulate change, your mind stagnates a little and life feels dull.
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Regardless of income, teens who spend far more time with their peers than their families end up focusing on significantly fewer of the challenging activities, from studying to sports, that really develop their abilities.
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Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life.
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If most of the time you’re not particularly concerned about what you’re doing is work or play, or even whether you’re happy or not, you know you’re living the focused life.
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…attention orders but also limits your experience, which can be tricky where big decisions are concerned.
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…research shows that we aren’t so much risk-averse as loss-averse, in that we’re generally much more sensitive to what we might have to give up than to what we might gain.
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How you decide to spend your time and make other choices that affect your quality of life is closely bound up with attention…
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Much research incontrovertibly shows that memory is biased and unpredictable – more like a patchwork quilt than the seamless tapestry of reality we like to imagine.
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…99 percent of the stuff of life – relationships, work, home, recreation – is the same no matter where you are, and once you settle in a place, no matter how salubrious, you don’t think about its climate very much.
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