5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Ever find yourself navigating the maze of modern distractions, longing for a moment of true focus? Christian Madsberg, author of "Look: How to Pay Attention in a Distracted World," joins us to share practical strategies for cultivating the kind of attention that can enrich our lives. Christian introduces us to the concept of panoptic attention - a background focus that's as essential as it is often neglected. As we dissect skills that have become second nature and the cultural nuances that shape them, we uncover the profound impact of our attention's direction on who we become.
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In this episode we discuss...
(00:00) "Improving Focus and Attention in Distraction"
(14:02) Navigating Focus
(26:00) Leading With Observation, Not Opinion
(35:12) Learning From Behaviors to Predict the Future
(40:57) Distractions and Artificial Intelligence's Impact
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0:00.0 | The following is an operation podcast production. |
0:03.3 | The majority of us will say, I can't focus. |
0:10.3 | What is it about this aspect of not having focus that then only makes us try to get it back? |
0:17.0 | We're poisoned by distraction and it is a muscle just like exercising is to the is the ability to see how things work and to see the background so the background is observable you can You can pay attention to it and you can describe it. |
0:36.0 | But instead of doing that, we seem to have opinions about everything. |
0:40.0 | We seem to get lost in not important things, but it's something you have to go to the gym, |
0:48.1 | you know, attention gym every day for your attention to stay fit and for your perception to stay fit. |
0:54.0 | And without it you get lost, unproductive, miserable, |
0:58.0 | you feel kind of lost. |
0:59.0 | I think a lot of people feel lost like that today. |
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1:09.0 | Look, how to pay attention in a distracted world. |
1:12.0 | And we're going to talk about attention |
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