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There's getting attention and paying attention.

Of course, in the last decade or so, new technology has allowed more and more people to have this powerful feeling of getting attention.

And so I feel compelled to speak up because in my experience, the more I go after that powerful feeling of paying attention, the happier I am.

But the more I go after the powerful feeling of getting attention, the unhappier I am.

I think the first time I can remember using my acting to get attention, I was eight years old at summer camp.

The other kids gave me a bunch of extra attention, because I had been on "Family Ties."

And ever since that summer, I've had a certain hesitance to seek attention for my acting.

Sometimes, people would ask me, "Wait a minute, if you don't like the attention, then why are you an actor?"

Because at that point, I was absolutely using my acting to get attention.

But ... if we're going to talk about the perils of creativity becoming a means to get attention, then we have to talk about the attention-driven business model of today's big social media companies, right?

It's selling attention.

It's selling the attention of its users to advertisers.

And there's a lot of discussion right now about how much attention we're all giving to things like Instagram, but my question is: How is Instagram getting so much attention?

Anytime somebody posts on Instagram, they get a certain amount of attention from their followers, whether they have a few followers or a few million followers.

And the more attention you're able to get, the more attention Instagram is able to sell.

So it's in Instagram's interest for you to get as much attention as possible.

And so it trains you to want that attention, to crave it, to feel stressed out when you're not getting enough of it.

Instagram gets its users addicted to the powerful feeling of getting attention.

Being addicted to getting attention is just like being addicted to anything else.

That feeling of inadequacy is what drives you to post, so you can get more attention, and then that attention that you get is what these companies sell, that's how they make their money.

So there is no amount of attention you can get where you feel like you've arrived, and you're like, "Ah, I'm good now."

If your creativity is driven by a desire to get attention, you're never going to be creatively fulfilled.

Something else you can do with your attention besides letting a giant tech company control it and sell it.

To really pay attention like this takes practice, everybody does it their own way.

But if there's one thing I can share that I think helps me focus and really pay attention, it's this: I try not to see other creative people as my competitors.

But when I see the other actors as collaborators, then it becomes almost easy to focus, because I'm just paying attention to them.

If we could just stop competing for attention, then the internet becomes a great place to find collaborators.

And once I'm collaborating with other people, whether they're on set, or online, wherever, that makes it so much easier for me to find that flow, because we're all just paying attention to the one thing that we're making together.

And I fell like I'm part of something larger than myself, and we all sort of shield each other from anything else that might otherwise grab our attention, and we can all just be there.

Sometimes, I still totally get wrapped up in that addictive cycle of wanting to get attention.

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