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9 Ways to ‘Rewild Your Attention’
Secondly, there is a value in leaving behind your other concerns and narrowing down your attention to one thing,
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Caufield's main argument was that we have become swept away by streams – the collapse of information into single-track timelines of events. The conversational feed design of email inboxes, group chats, and InstaTwitBook is fleeting – they're only concerned with self-assertive immediate thoughts that rush by us in a few moments.
Maggie Appleton • A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
One thing I have learned about attention is that certain forms of it are contagious. When you spend enough time with someone who pays close attention to something (if you were hanging out with me, it would be birds), you inevitably start to pay attention to some of the same things. I’ve also learned that patterns of attention—what we choose to noti
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