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Multitasking drains the brain
Multitasking drains the brain
Richard Cytowic: “The high energy cost of cortical activity is why selective attention — focusing on one thing at a time — exists in the first place and why multitasking is an unaffordable fool’s errand.”
The high energy cost of cortical activity is why selective attention — focusing on one thing at a time — exists in the first place and why multitasking is an unaffordable fool’s errand.
#attention#multitasking
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Multitasking drains the brain
Third Birds
Third Birds
In The New Yorker, Nathan Heller writes about attention and the Order of the Third Bird.
#attention
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Third Birds
Attention education
Attention education
In The New York Times, three members of the Strother School of Radical Attention make a case for a new way of thinking about education.
#attention#education
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Attention education
“But first”
“But first”
“But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.” “But first, here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic.”
#attention#distraction
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“But first”
“5 MIN READ”
“5 MIN READ”
For a while I never noticed the new reading-time estimates that accompany Times headlines. Now I can’t help noticing them, and I’m aghast. Seeing an estimate attached to a review of two books about attention and technology makes my ironymeter go haywire.
#attention#NewYorkTimes#reading
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“5 MIN READ”
Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022)
Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022)
Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes.
#life#attention
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Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022)
Staying in one place
Staying in one place
A (pre-pandemic) observation from Philip Reed, a professional model maker: “I do not see that just having to stay in one place is a restriction on life. It’s more having to stay in one place in your head that’s a restriction on life.”
#attention#life#work
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Staying in one place
Fighting distraction
Fighting distraction
Diana Senechal: “To fight distraction is to defend something that matters, something that requires devotion of the mind. This is part of the meaning of study: to honor things through thought and longing.”
#attention#distraction#studying
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Fighting distraction