Quotes About Attention

Why do we keep focusing on the minutiae, not the possible significant large events, in spite of the obvious evidence of their huge influence?

The Web is an unhealthy place for someone hungry for attention.

In that sense the description coming from journalism is certainly not just an unrealistic representation of the world but rather the one that can fool you the most by grabbing your attention via your emotional apparatus—the cheapest to deliver sensation. Take

The overlap between newspapers was so large that you would get less and less information the more you read. Yet everyone was so eager to become familiar with every fact that they read every freshly printed document and listened to every radio station as if the great answer was going to be revealed to them in the next bulletin. People

The wise man listens to meaning; the fool only gets the noise.

Events that are nonrepeatable are ignored before their occurrence, and overestimated after (for a while). After

if you need to be continuously on the watch, doesn't that cause fatigue?

that there is no evidence of the possibility of large events, i.e., Black Swans. You are likely to confuse that statement, however, particularly if you do not pay close attention, with the statement that there is evidence of no possible Black

People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention.

best way to detect a sucker is to see if his focus is on the size of the theater rather than that of the door.

focusing, rather, on the precise and vivid events that easily come to our minds.

Most people in the real world don't obsess over it.

minimize time spent reading newspapers

The deregulation led to an increase in safety, confirming the antifragility of attention at work

the difference between noise and signal. Noise is what you are supposed to ignore, signal what you need to heed.

The overlap between newspapers was so large that you would get less and less information the more you read. Yet everyone was so eager to become familiar with every fact that they read every freshly printed document and listened to every radio station as if the great answer was going to be revealed to them in the next bulletin.

crave some form of attention

we do not have the mental power to absorb all information and tend to be confused by details)

which requires day-to-day monitoring.

and news shared with millions gives you no real advantage.

I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time

Academic work, because of its attention-seeking orientation, can be easily subjected to Lindy effects: think of the hundreds of thousands of papers that are just noise, in spite of how hyped they were at the time of publication.

I figured out that whatever I selected myself I could read with more depth and more breadth—there was a match to my curiosity. And I could take advantage of what people later pathologized as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) by using natural stimulation as a main driver to scholarship.

Nero believes, draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal (the