When you give something your full attention, you find yourself by definition thinking less about other things, checking your phone, whatnot, and more.

This is all we have as humans, right, is the present moment.

So can you give that thing that you have, this precious gift of your attention entirely to one thing?

No. that you have this precious gift of your attention entirely to one thing. One of my favorite things that photography taught me was how to be more aware.

Right? As a photographer, there's the technical aspects, but there's also the awareness of moments, being

present for moments enough to see them such that you know when to click the shutter.

You could argue that this is finding moments. You could argue that this is finding beauty,

but it's not always beauty that we're capturing, right? Sometimes it's pain or frustration or

there's so many,

there's a whole range of things. But for every thing that I realized that photography, you know,

did for me, supported my becoming more aware of moments. there is an infinity of things in culture that are taking

us out of the present moment. It's for that reason and also the fact that I'm married to a meditation

of mindfulness and awareness coach, a teacher, my wife Kate.

It's both of these things that have really helped me double down on my belief

and understanding that awareness, not just in beauty, but just awareness of the present moment, of the power that

this tool wields. This concept gets us out of our heads into our bodies and the present moment

into this precious life that we have. And in a continuation of that,

getting us out of there, it ironically connects us so much more deeply to our human experience

and the world around us. These are profound, I'm making a profound claim here.

And yet I believe this to be true.

I deeply believe this to be true.

Now, if we zoom out a little bit, in fact, you know, when people early in their careers as creators for those who identify as such, it is not uncommon to,

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