Every day, there are multiple things vying for our attention — people, businesses, technologies, apps. But many of us don’t realize that our attention is our property.It belongs to us just like any other resource we own. And when we choose what we give our attention to, we can focus fully on our own purpose and on what’s best for us.
When you take a step back and think about your thinking, you can take control of your attention, as well as your time and your purpose, rather than allowing others to be in control. It’s up to you.
The specific experiences you tend to remember most are ones where you were fully attentive. These experiences leave a much more powerful record in our memory than situations in which we weren’t paying attention, where we weren’t conscious of being conscious about the experience.
These experiences—and they can be as short as a few minutes—are the rock solid proof in your mind that you’re truly alive and that you’re a unique individual. The chance to think about your thinking is readily available, but it’s no surprise that for some people, it doesn’t happen often. There are so many things vying for our attention nowadays, and in the course of most people’s lives, they aren’t asked or prompted to think about their thinking.
But once you make the breakthrough of doing that, you’ve freed yourself. You recognize your own point of view about, and experience of, a situation, and now you own the experience.
The specific experiences you tend to remember most are ones where you were fully attentive. These experiences leave a much more powerful record in our memory than situations in which we weren’t paying attention, where we weren’t conscious of being conscious about the experience.
These experiences—and they can be as short as a few minutes—are the rock solid proof in your mind that you’re truly alive and that you’re a unique individual. The chance to think about your thinking is readily available, but it’s no surprise that for some people, it doesn’t happen often. There are so many things vying for our attention nowadays, and in the course of most people’s lives, they aren’t asked or prompted to think about their thinking.
But once you make the breakthrough of doing that, you’ve freed yourself. You recognize your own point of view about, and experience of, a situation, and now you own the experience.
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