If you want to win the war for attention, don’t try to say ‘no’ to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say ‘yes’ to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the terrifying longing crowd out everything else.
– David Brooks
Notes
- logos informs best our attention
- The Art of Focused-Dispassion
- Focus is the directing of attention.
- Dispassion is the withdrawal of emotion.
- Freedom From Thoughts = (Intensity + Persistence) x Focused-Dispassion x Time
- Be persistent and earnest with your focused-dispassion, and over time the thoughts that used to worry you simply won’t be on your radar.
- Related to
- infobesity-epidemic
- is attention left-hemisphere and awareness right-hemisphere ?
- Intro thread to Iain McGilchrist's work, based on his mini-book Ways of Attending: How our divided brain constructs the world.
- pay attention or pay with tension.
- opposite of addictions
- from https://youtu.be/ZZ45R8AeR5M?t=411
we think of attention under the misguided metaphor like the spotlight metaphor – john-vervaeke
- so instead attention is an action for a gathering or meaning making
- it the force that is behind relevance-realization or mediating between heaven-earth
- so its not a spotlight but as an act or process of unification