Rapt

Attention and the Focused Life

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Winifred Gallagher: Rapt (Paperback, 2010, Penguin Books)

Paperback, 256 pages

Published March 30, 2010 by Penguin Books.

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978-0-14-311690-5
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Winifred Gallagher revolutionizes our understanding of attention and the creation of the interested lifeIn 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 questionsCan we train our focus? Whats 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?driving 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. Sciences major contribution to the study of attention has been the discovery that its basic …

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