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Life is the sum focus of what you pay attention to. You hear that a lot. But look at the verb there: “pay” attention to. As if attention is something we consciously spend out. As if it’s something we control. But do we?
Not these days. There’s a war on for our attention, and we’re often losing it. Chris Bailey’s Hyperfocus looks, from the outside, like a book about productivity. But it’s really one of the best books I’ve read about attention: what it is, how much it can hold, how we lose track of it, and how to get it back.
This is a conversation about paying attention to your attention, making sure you’re controlling it rather than accidentally letting it - and all the multibillion-dollar companies working to hijack it - control you. This is one of those conversations that, if you can apply it, will actually make your life a bit better, a bit more your own.
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Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
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How Not to Die by Michael Greger
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3 сен 2018
