Attention Must Be Paid — but How? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com

Attention Must Be Paid — but How? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com: "Ms. Gallagher’s “Rapt” is a survey of the science of attention and a guide to achieving what she calls the focused life. My column quotes some of her advice for shunning multi-tasking, Twittering, Crackberrying and other modern temptations. “Where did the idea come from that anyone who wants to contact you can do so at any time?” Ms. Gallagher said to me. “You need to take charge of what you pay attention to instead of responding to the latest stimuli. Taking top-down control of your own experience almost always correlates with well-being. You pull out your book on the subway, and suddenly it’s not so bad even though you’re surrounded by crazy people doing crazy things.”"