Category: mind
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William James on Attention, Multitasking, & the Habit of Mind That Sets Geniuses Apart – Maria Popova
“My experience is what I agree to attend to.” “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,”Simone Weil wrote. Decades later, cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz observed in her marvelous inquiry into our everyday blinders: “Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only […]
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