325 | The Cluttered Mind
The Minimalists
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The Mental Flashlight
Like an actual flashlight, we can direct it. We can point it and decide. If somebody a claps their hands or a fire alarm goes off, your attentionis surely notking a stay wherever the flashliht was pointed. It's going to get yanked around by something else. The other way is to think about attention as this narrowing, crisp, fine grained flashlight. Almost you caun get it to the poit whreit's like a lazer beam. But just like your cat playing around, you move that lazer bean around, it's going t it's going to be pulled around by certain kinds of mental content.
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