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While the link between attention and excellence remains hidden most of the time, it ripples through almost everything we seek to accomplish.
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Through an optical illusion of the mind we typically register the end products of attention… without noticing the beam of awareness itself.
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Attention works much like a muscle – use it poorly and it can wither; work it well and it grows.
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Today’s children are growing up in a new reality, one where they are attuning more to machines and less to people than has ever been true in human history.
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The diving line between fruitless rumination and productive reflection lies in whether or not we come up with some tentative solution or insight and then can let those distressing thoughts go…
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The power to disengage our attention from one thing and move it to another is essential for well-being.
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The stronger our selective attention, the more powerfully we can stay absorbed in what we’ve chosen to do: get swept away…
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We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we are learning, the brain maps the information on what we already know, making new neural connections.
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Deep thinking demands sustaining a focused mind. The more distracted we are, the more shallow our reflections…
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Our social capital – and range of attention – increases as we up the number of social ties through which we gain crucial information…
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