Barry Schwartz, a Swarthmore psychology professor and the author of The Paradox of Choice—argue

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”

SLANT: sit up; lean forward; ask and answer questions; nod your head; and track the speaker.

“The best way to complain is to make things.”

MAKE A ONE-MINUTE VIDEO ABOUT A PLACE

Expand your attention to include everything that you can possibly hear, without judgment. The ear hears. The brain listens. —PAULINE OLIVEROS

Silence isn’t an endgame. It’s a catalyst, an opportunity to discover truer things about the world outside or inside your head. —DIANE COOK

Trickster Makes This World, an excellent book about such acts of disruptive imagination, scholar and writer Lewis Hyde

As writer Jeffrey Kastner observed: “Attention to the world is the proper vocation not just of the artist but of anyone who imagines it as a place worthy of preservation.”