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At the end of the book, Kelly McGonigal concludes:
*“If there is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing:* ***the power of paying attention*** *. It’s training the mind to recognize when you’re making a choice, rather than running on autopilot.”*
I Have 10 Pieces of Willpower Wisdom to Share With You
Charlotte Grysolle
It’s not just that living in a constant state of distraction is unpleasant, or that a life without willful thought and action is an impoverished one. If it’s true that collective agency both mirrors and relies on the individual capacity to “pay attention,” then in a time that demands action, distraction appears to be (at the level of the collective) a life-and-death matter. A social body that can’t concentrate or communicate with itself is like a person who can’t think and act.
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
One cannot expect every moment of one’s existence to be a sacred celebration of meaning and worth. Indeed, there is probably something about us that resists this or even makes it impossible. But to endure the absence of meaning is one thing, to embrace it another. If we are to be human beings at all, we must distinguish ourselves from others; there must be moments when we rise up out of the generic and banal and into the particular and skillfully engaged. But how is one to know whether the coffee-drinking ritual is one of these moments? The answer is that one must learn to see.
All Things Shining
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
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