![]() ![]() On the experiential level, taking charge of your attention is the key to personal power and freedom-and the hallmark of the successful and satisfied. It’s so simple yet so profound to execute. This is one of the most powerful lines that I have come across. ![]() Only those items which I notice shape my mind. On the deepest level, what you focus on can literally change your brain, and thus your behavior. Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher opens up with William James’s famous quote, My experience is what I agree to attend to. As the expression “paying attention” suggest, you have a limited store of this cognitive currency, which you should invest wisely, because the stakes are high. In Rapt, acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher makes the radical and compelling argument that much of the quality of your life. Your brain’s selective gatekeeper, it’s involved in virtually every aspect of life-learning and memory, thought and emotion, work and relationships. In Rapt, acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher makes the radical and compelling argument that much of the quality of your life depends not on fame or fortune, beauty or brains-or on what happens to happen to you-but on what you choose to pay attention to.ĭrawing from the latest neuroscience and psychology, Rapt looks beyond the sound bites about multitasking, ADHD, and our distracting electronics to illuminate attention’s essential function: transforming the vast, chaotic world into your own orderly, user-friendly personal version.
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