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How To Focus Your Distracted Mind with Adam Gazzaley

Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

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The Landscape of Attention

Top-down and bottom-up attention are the two main forces that influence our focus. Bottom-up is a more ancient force, which draws on things related to survival. The other type of attention is what we call top-down attention. That's dictated not by relevance of stimuli but by decisions about your goals.

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