Quotes About Attention

manifesto titled "A Call to Minimize Distraction & Respect Users' Attention.

To concentrate requires what ART calls directed attention. This resource is finite: If you exhaust it, you'll struggle to concentrate. (For

without these accountability tools, I tended to procrastinate on this work, turning my attention to more urgent but less important matters.

Declaring freedom from your smartphone is probably the most serious step you can take toward embracing the attention resistance. This follows because smartphones are the preferred Trojan horse of the digital attention economy.

Day's innovation was to realize that his readers could become his product and the advertisers his customers. His goal became to sell as many minutes of his readers' attention as possible to the advertisers.

Shallow Work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend to not create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate

Tener claridad sobre lo importante equivale a tener claridad sobre lo que no es importante.

Once you know where your activities fall on the deep-to-shallow scale, bias your time toward the former.

although our current embrace of distraction is a real phenomenon, it's built on an unstable foundation and can be easily dismissed once you decide

what deliberate practice actually requires. Its core components are usually identified as follows: (1) your attention is focused tightly on a specific skill you're trying to improve or an idea you're trying to master; (2) you receive feedback so you can correct your approach to keep your attention exactly where it's most productive.

conversation is what counts—don't be distracted from this reality by the shiny stuff on your screen.

Outsourcing your autonomy to an attention economy conglomerate—as you do when you mindlessly sign up for whatever new hot service emerges from the Silicon Valley venture capitalist class—is the opposite of freedom, and will likely degrade your individuality

deliberate practice cannot exist alongside distraction,

These directly measurable costs, however, were the easy part of his decision. It was instead the "opportunity costs" that required more attention. As he elaborated: "If I make hay all summer, I can't be doing something else.

balance this profit against the costs measured in terms of "your life." How much of your time and attention, he would ask, must be

toward distracting behavior, because in an Internet-centric technopoly such behavior is not up for discussion.

The Art of Focus,

the notification symbol for Facebook was originally blue, to match the palette of the rest of the site, "but no one used it."16 So they changed the color to red—an alarm color—and clicking skyrocketed.

To summarize, if you want to eliminate the addictive pull of entertainment sites on your time and attention, give your brain a quality alternative.

common term I heard in these conversations about modern digital life was exhaustion. It's not that any one app or website was particularly bad when considered in isolation. As many people clarified, the issue was the overall impact of having so many different shiny baubles pulling so insistently at their attention and manipulating their mood.

Digital minimalists recognize that cluttering their time and attention with too many devices, apps, and services creates an overall negative cost that can swamp the small benefits that each individual item

Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea." This advice comes from Antonin-Dalmace Sertillanges, a Dominican friar and professor of moral philosophy, who during the early part of the twentieth century penned a slim but influential volume titled The Intellectual Life.

We justify many of the technologies that tyrannize our time and attention with some tangential connection to something we care about.

attention" to uncover the truth latent in each. In other words, he teaches: To learn requires intense concentration.