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“She believed she had uncovered a key truth about focus: To pay attention in normal ways, you need to feel safe.”
― Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
― Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
“Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left.”
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
“Time tells you what you didn’t accomplish. Focus turns off the clock and directs all your energy to the result.”
― Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness
― Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness
“Social reality is an incredible gift. You can simply make stuff up, like a meme or a tradition or a law, and if other people treat it as real, it becomes real. Our social world is a buffer we build around the physical world. The author Lynda Barry writes, “We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.”
― Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
― Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
“When a person is not doing his job, there can only be two reasons for it. The person either can’t do it or won’t do it; he is either not capable or not motivated. To determine which, we can employ a simple mental test: if the person’s life depended on doing the work, could he do it? If the answer is yes, that person is not motivated; if the answer is no, he is not capable.”
― High Output Management
― High Output Management
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