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Tom White's avatar

I love this. For better or worse, attention is a zero-sum game and its checkbook must always be balanced.

Paying attention to crap not only takes away from your ability to tune into things that bring wonder and delight, but also actually erodes your working memory.

As I wrote: “I find myself doing this increasingly often—I pick up my phones to check the time or weather, see a notification, tap it, and suddenly I’m entirely derailed.

The thought dissolves.

The intention vanishes.

The thread is gone.

My internal monologue goes something like this: Wait…what was I doing again?

Answer:

Nothing.

Everything.

Whatever the machine told me to.

“Distracted from distraction by distraction,” as T.S. Eliot would say.”

More: https://www.whitenoise.email/p/we-built-the-neuralyzer-from-men

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Madsy's avatar

this made me feel better. thank you

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Sara Benna's avatar

"Hold yourself to the standards you expect of the person you’re becoming". This is the ultimate growth hack. Not only are you raising your ceiling of expectation, but also uncovering the person you are meant to be along the way, and that ceiling keeps getting higher. It's a win-win.

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Wycliff's avatar

This has healed a part of me. I really needed it.

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Light Full's avatar

Thank you. I needed this a great deal. 👌🏻✨

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