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In fact, I would argue that these examples might not even involve your memory, because you didn't pay attention to where you put your keys in the first place.

They can't concentrate, their attention plummets and many will even show behavioral signs that mimic ADHD.

But she did have an outlet, and it wasn't her parents, who she adored, who just didn't quite understand her yet, or her three older brothers, who were too busy with hair gel and light sabers to pay any attention to her.

So when that little girl sat rapt to attention, all those years ago at her television screen, watching the X-Men, it wasn't just because they had taken her on an astonishing adventure.

Paying close attention to something: Not that easy, is it?

It's because our attention is pulled in so many different directions at a time, and it's in fact pretty impressive if you can stay focused.

Many people think that attention is all about what we are focusing on, but it's also about what information our brain is trying to filter out.

There are two ways you direct your attention.

First, there's overt attention.

In overt attention, you move your eyes towards something in order to pay attention to it.

Then there's covert attention.

In covert attention, you pay attention to something, but without moving your eyes.

Your overt attention, your direction of the eyes, are in front, but that's your covert attention which is constantly scanning the surrounding area, where you don't actually look at them.

Depending on which of these flickers you are paying attention to, certain parts of your brain will start resonating in the same rate as that flickering rate.

So by analyzing your brain signals, we can track where exactly you are watching or you are paying attention to.

So to see what happens in your brain when you pay overt attention, I asked people to look directly in one of the squares and pay attention to it.

But I was really interested to see what happens in your brain when you pay covert attention.

So this time I asked people to look in the middle of the screen and without moving their eyes, to pay attention to either of these squares.

When we did that, we saw that both of these flickering rates appeared in their brain signals, but interestingly, only one of them, which was paid attention to, had stronger signals, so there was something in the brain which was handling this information so that thing in the brain was basically the activation of the frontal area.

The frontal part, it seems that it works as a filter trying to let information come in only from the right flicker that you are paying attention to and trying to inhibit the information coming from the ignored one.

The filtering ability of the brain is indeed a key for attention, which is missing in some people, for example in people with ADHD.

We are not there yet, but pay close attention.

And there's a punchline coming, so pay attention.

If we did that then everyone would pay attention, and we would win.

There's a hidden goal driving the direction of all of the technology we make, and that goal is the race for our attention.

Because every news site, TED, elections, politicians, games, even meditation apps have to compete for one thing, which is our attention, and there's only so much of it.

And the best way to get people's attention is to know how someone's mind works.

And there's a whole bunch of persuasive techniques that I learned in college at a lab called the Persuasive Technology Lab to get people's attention.

The reason it feels like it's sucking us in the way it is is because of this race for attention.

Outrage is a really good way also of getting your attention, because we don't choose outrage.

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