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Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

por Winifred Gallagher

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Acclaimed behavioral science writer Gallagher makes the radical argument that the quality of a life largely depends on what and how one chooses to pay attention. "Rapt" yields fresh insights into the nature of reality and what it means to be fully alive.
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Great book if you've got a wondering mind. Shows you convincingly that happiness is directly connected to your ability to pay focused attention to something ( )
  Smokler | Jan 3, 2021 |
Excellent book. It sometimes gets a little dense with studies and research, but the author does an terrific job of making an abstract concept tangible and actionable. ( )
  grandpahobo | Sep 26, 2019 |
The author identifies herself as an amateur psychologist. She does not report any bodies of work. She refers to self-actualization and positive psychology writers - Carl Roger, Martin Seligman. She has her own theory of attention. Partly self-help for meditation, happiness and wellness. It's not outright New Age, but it speaks Fluffy. ( )
  BraveKelso | Apr 29, 2018 |
What an awesome collection of literature of attention and focus. The author has compiled a densely packed, but slim, volume of ideas that are best savored over and over in small bites (focused attention!). Better than the reams of self-help books on the shelf or in web blogs that try to boil it down to a quick list of 7 things, Gallagher's comprehensive literature review and idea organization draw the connections between ideas.

Thanks for a book that deserves a place on the shelf to be picked up and thumbed through over and over. ( )
  deldevries | Jan 31, 2016 |
The central thesis is interesting and compelling: we experience in full what we attend to, but unfortunately our attention is seldom under the degree of conscious control that we might like to think it is.

I habitually avoid "self-help" titles like the plague, finding them on the whole: banal, self-indulgent, and just plain icky; but this book erred far enough on the side of serious behavioural science to keep me "rapt" (one measure of my engagement: I counted two jarring instances of "likelier" - I guess my ear still prefers the more likely UK English usage!). Nevertheless, this is one of those books that probably wouldn't loose much if you only got to read a 5 page pr��cis. ( )
  pratalife | Feb 9, 2014 |
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"My experience is what I agree to attend to."

-- William James
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Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness.
Horse Frightened by a Lion depicts a majestic stallion in a very different situation. Stubbs painted this magnificent masterpiece to illustrate the nature of the sublime, which was one his era's most popular philosophical concepts, and its relation to a timelessly riveting feeling: fear. The magnificent horse galloping through a vast wilderness encounters the bottom-up stimulus of a crouching predator and responds with a dramatic display of what psychologists mildly call "negative emotion." The equine superstar's arched neck, dilated eyes, and flared nostrils are in fact the very picture of overwhelming dread. The painting's subject matter reflects the philosopher Edmund Burke's widely circulated Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, which asserts that because "terror" is unparalleled in commanding "astonishment," or total, single-pointed, - indeed, rapt - attention, it is "the ruling principle of the sublime."
Consciousness, which is the "reflective" element of Norman's conceptual brain, handles the "higher" functions at the metaphorical tip of the very top of that complicated organ. Because consciousness pays a lot of attention to your thoughts, you tend to identify it with cognition. However, if you try to figure out exactly how you run your business or care for your family, you soon realize that you can't grasp that process just by thinking about it. As Norman puts it, "Consciousness also has a qualitative, sensory feel. If I say, 'I'm afraid,' it's not just my mind talking. My stomach also knots up."
Those who can't stop concentrating on the awful truth are said to suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder. The irony, of course, is that psychiatric diagnosis notwithstanding, these tormented attenders are "the rational ones," says the Penn psychologist Paul Rozin. "The rest of us live in a disgusting world, too, yet to function, we somehow don't concentrate on that. We focus on something else, unless the contamination is overtly called to our attention."
This observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization."
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