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
  • if not than it breaks the pattern and suffering enters the world
• 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

Links

• iain-mcGilchrist on attention