As I read an article in the New York Times about how the screen of our smartphones is addictive and consumes our attention. And journalist Nellie Bowles tried to switch her iPhone screen to grayscale. Apparently, this lowers your “enthusiasm” for using your phone...
When 2019 began I suggested making it the year or attention and creativity. How’s is it going for you? Photo from 25sweetpeas.com I began reading Csikszentmihalyi’s book on ”Creativity” and he speaks about the relation between attention and creativity at the...
… paying attention. It is so simple and so complicated these days of frenetic connectivity. Being mindful means total presence in the present. The attention we give is the sense of belonging to the present we receive.
Time has an arrow, and it points forward. There’s no way back. If you lose the pace in what you want to achieve when you begin learning something, there’s no other way but picking up the pace again. I can think of several reasons to lose pace while you learn. Because...
Some people think challenges should be easier because when we’re nervous, we lack attention. Being nervous is not the cause of a lack of attention. Some people experience the opposite, a sense of greater focus when they’re nervous. A state of alertness....
