The Importance of Attention in Relationships

Adrian Ward says relying on others affects our attention, which feeds into learning and knowledge. If you are bad at finances but are tasked with the financial responsibility, you pay attention to the financial stuff in the environment. The brain is not like a computer; it doesn't sit there and sort of calculate all the options or do mathematics. And as a result, relative to a computer hard drive, the memory capacity of the brain is quite puny.