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Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life (Hardcover)

By: Winifred Gallagher (Author)

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"Gallagher deserves credit for calling our attention to attention itself, specifically to the way it works neurologically....RAPT [identifies] both biological and cultural causes for our sometimes self-defeating habits."

"[In] this engaging book,....Gallagher blends the science nicely with examples of people whose disciplined attention has contributed to their success: Tiger Woods is extremely focused on golf; Mozart really grooved on music; and when Bill Clinton felt our pain, he did so with all his heart."

"RAPT is a fascinating discussion of how consciousness works, and Ms. Gallagher offers much helpful advice on how to lead a 'focused life.' "

"Gallagher reinvigorates our understanding of a crucial cognitive function in a fluent and fascinating blend of cutting-edge science and thoughtful guidelines for living an attentive life."

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The behavioral scientist author of Just the Way You Are presents a provocative argument that the quality of one's life is directly related to the focus of one's attention, drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology to cover such topics as the human capacity for training concentration, the ways in which the creative mind thinks, and why people deliberate on the wrong factors when making big decisions.

Winifred Gallagher revolutionizes our understanding of attention and the creation of the interested life
In "Rapt," acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher makes the radical argument that the quality of your life largely depends on what you choose to pay attention to and how you choose to do it. Gallagher grapples with provocative questionsaCan we train our focus? Whatas different about the way creative people pay attention? Why do we often zero in on the wrong factors when making big decisions, like where to move?adriving us to reconsider what we think we know about attention.
Gallagher looks beyond sound bites on our proliferating BlackBerries and the increased incidence of ADD in children to the discoveries of neuroscience and psychology and the wisdom of home truths, profoundly altering and expanding the contemporary conversation on attention and its power. Scienceas major contribution to the study of attention has been the discovery that its basic mechanism is an either/or process of selection. That we focus may be a biological necessitya research now proves we can process only a little information at a time, or about 173 billion bits over an average lifeabut the good news is that we have much more control over our focus than we think, which gives us a remarkable yet underappreciated capacity to influence our experience. As suggested by the expression apay attention, a this cognitive currency is a finite resource that we must learn to spend wisely. In "Rapt," Gallagher introduces us to a diverse cast of charactersaartists and ranchers, birders and scientistsawho have learned to do just that and whose stories are profound lessons in the art of living theinterested life. No matter what your quotient of wealth, looks, brains, or fame, increasing your satisfaction means focusing more on what really interests you and less on what doesnat. In asserting its groundbreaking thesisathe wise investment of your attention is the single most important thing you can do to improve your well-beinga"Rapt" yields fresh insights into the nature of reality and what it means to be fully alive.

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Please pay attention. Behavioral scientist Winifred Gallagher cogently argues that we all have the ability to enact positive change in our lives by controlling a single, simple factor--our attention. Gallagher shows how peoples' choices about what to concentrate on and what to dismiss have gradually become skewed over time or, worse, abandoned altogether. This compelling study combines scientific evidence, which shows that we have much more control over our focus than we realize, with concrete advice on how to harness that potential and transform it into fulfillment.

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