Attention in sentence

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And so outrage works really well at getting attention, such that if Facebook had a choice between showing you the outrage feed and a calm newsfeed, they would want to show you the outrage feed, not because someone consciously chose that, but because that worked better at getting your attention.

It's only accountable to maximizing attention.

It's not just taking away our agency to spend our attention and live the lives that we want, it's changing the way that we have our conversations, it's changing our democracy, and it's changing our ability to have the conversations and relationships we want with each other.

Instead of handicapping our attention, imagine if we used all of this data and all of this power and this new view of human nature to give us a superhuman ability to focus and a superhuman ability to put our attention to what we cared about and a superhuman ability to have the conversations that we need to have for democracy.

The most complex challenges in the world require not just us to use our attention individually.

They require us to use our attention and coordinate it together.

Climate change is going to require that a lot of people are being able to coordinate their attention in the most empowering way together.

And maybe instead of getting excited about the new augmented reality and virtual reality and these cool things that could happen, which are going to be susceptible to the same race for attention, if we could fix the race for attention on the thing that's already in a billion people's pockets.

There's nothing in your life or in our collective problems that does not require our ability to put our attention where we care about.

At the end of our lives, all we have is our attention and our time.

There's conferences and workshops that teach people all these covert ways of getting people's attention and orchestrating people's lives.

It's the classic race to the bottom when you have to get attention, and it's so tense.

You could even watch this choose-your-own-adventure movie "The Moment," which, with an EEG headset, changes the movie based on your brain-based reactions, giving you a different ending every time your attention wanes.

I worry that people will self-censor in fear of being ostracized by society, or that people will lose their jobs because of their waning attention or emotional instability, or because they're contemplating collective action against their employers.

There's one last thing I want to draw your attention to, which is that experiences of the body from the inside are very different from experiences of the world around us.

I would have said that, you know, being logical and paying attention and staying calm would have done the trick, but who am I? Tip four: point out the disability in others.

So when I randomly ran down to the junior college and registered for classes, I really wasn't paying attention to what I was registering to.

Dr. Daniel Levitin: Every time you shift your attention from one thing to another, the brain has to engage a neurochemical switch that uses up nutrients in the brain to accomplish that.

MZ: A decade ago, we shifted our attention at work every three minutes.

Dr. Gloria Mark: So we find that when people are stressed, they tend to shift their attention more rapidly.

Woman 2: If I don't pay close attention, I'll suddenly realize that I've lost an hour of time doing something totally mindless.

Tristan Harris: If I'm Facebook or I'm Netflix or I'm Snapchat, I have literally a thousand engineers whose job is to get more attention from you.

I mean, so there's a million places to spend your attention, but there's a war going on to get it.

But what is your attention worth?

But it got my attention, and so I did some research.

I mean, why focus so much attention on something so brief?

It's a pretty common one, so when so few hands go up, either you're not paying attention or you don't know your blood type, and both of those are bad.

If you aren't at least a bit disturbed by something I tell you here, you're just not paying attention.

Now, civil libertarians like myself have been trying to draw people's attention to these things and fighting against them for years.

So when giant clams start to disappear from coral reefs, their absence can serve as an alarm bell for scientists to start paying attention, similar to the canary in a coal mine.

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