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#584 - Dr Gloria Mark - How To Take Control Of Your Attention

Modern Wisdom

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The Human Mind Is a Bottleneck

The human mind is a bottleneck. We can't possibly take in all that information, so we're faced with our humanness and figuring out what we can attend to,. And sometimes it gives us problems. The father of psychology, William James, has this wonderful quote. He says, everyone knows what attention is. There's a distinction between knowing what it is and knowing where to control it.

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