Fully relate to this feeling. Even as I was reading this post, I switched to check how Codex was doing with a few side projects I was working on and then go back to finishing reading the post :grimacing: I’m feeling it right now. I had to set a timer for 15 minute on my computer and block all distractions to write…
Read the note →True dat. Even commentators who spend a lot of time fretting about the modern-day ‘crisis of distraction’ rarely seem to grasp the full implications of this. For example, you hear it said that attention is a ‘finite resource’, and finite it certainly is: according to one calculation, by the psychologist Timothy Wilson…
Read the note →Beautiful meditation on attention:
McGilchrist considers the way our attention constructs our reality and becomes the beating heart with which we love the world:
The whole illuminates the parts as much as the parts can illuminate the whole… The world we experience — which is the only one we can know — is affected by the kind of attention we pay to it.
Defining attention as “the manner in which our consciousness is disposed towards whatever else exists,” he writes:
The choice we make of how we dispose our consciousness is the ultimate creative act: it renders the world what it is. It is, therefore, a moral act: it has consequences.