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Moving Your Mind From Wandering Mess To Laser Focused By Regulating Attention | Flow Research Collective Radio

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The Fog Lamp and the Orienting System

The brain's orienting system is about directing and privileging certain kinds of information based on the content of the information. The alerting system, which we call being alert, is about what's happening right now in this particular moment. And then the third system actually works with both of those; it's really regarding privileging information tied to our goals.

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