However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.

Daniel Kahneman
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  2. It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias. - Criss Jami

  3. I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself. - Toba Beta

  4. To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’... - David Foster Wallace

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  1. Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

  2. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

  3. We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

  4. The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

  5. ...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what something is, what properties it has.

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