Book Titles

In an age of constant assaults on your attention, sanity requires that you tune out many of them, beginning with those from your own communications devices.

…whenever you engage in a creative activity, you boost your level of positive emotion, which in turn literally widens your attentional range, giving you more material to work with.

Mindful attention helps you work more effectively and creatively, but it also makes life more fun.

…acquiescence to a single way of understanding something means that you stop attending to reality, go on autopilot, and squelch any fresh ideas about how to do things better, or at least in your own way.

…research shows that you often attend to and learn things without even trying.

…science has determined that multitasking is for most practical purposes a myth, and heeding its siren call leads to inefficiency and even danger.

…exercise attention as if it were a muscle… like other skills, it can be improved with old-fashioned training.

Whenever you put yourself in circumstances that really suit who you are… your brain releases dopamine: the neurochemical that’s… so important to attention, cognition, the ability to anticipate pleasure and reward, and much else.

As the term workaholic suggests, the rapt attention and motivation inspired by a goal can resemble an addiction.

Whatever your motivation – attention is the link between your goal and the resources you bring to it.