This experience has given me a certain perspective on how attention functions ... three new novels on vacation and comes back having read only a third of one of them because she was sucked ...

Sean Illing is the host of The Gray Area podcast. A friend of mine once told me that “You are where your attention is.” That line always stuck with me. It was a reminder that the most ...

How do you read? Some people only read dialogue ... Van de Ven argues that during “close” reading, readers modulate their attention, using both skimming and close reading to get an ...

I clung to the belief that I could hold our marriage together, convinced this was a midlife detour — an awful phase that ...

I’ve read most of the books on attention out there ... I wanted people to pay attention to me. I don’t love that part of me. I don’t that’s like the best part of me.

When reading a book on attention, one becomes acutely aware ... “was its own attentional therapy because it forced me to focus and read,” he says, adding, “I went back and I read Kierkegaard ...

Read one of these books and you’re unnerved ... just a dressed-up version of “People aren’t paying attention to me”? The suspicion that all this is élite anxiety in the face of a ...

and the whole attention shifts to my hearing loss. Some end up praying for me; you see? It can be so embarrassing. Can you walk us through your career journey? I was at home for a long time after ...

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16 tables. All students facing the direction of instruction.” (Blake Harvard) Harvard has put these principles into his first book, published last week, titled, appropriately, Do I Have Your Attention ...

If something makes your stomach churn, you shouldn’t dismiss it just because you’re supposed to be grateful for the fame. I am grateful, but it took me a long time to get used to that attention,” he ...