“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.” — Simone Weil, Simone Weil

“You become what you give your attention to.” — Epictetus

Does the amount of attention I’m giving this match its importance?

Everyone (and everything) is competing for your attention, use it wisely, you don’t get the time back! Your energy flows to where your attention goes.

Where you direct your curiosity is where you direct your attention; attention is the currency of learning.

Just remember: if you don’t have attention, you don’t have time. Time without attention is worthless, so value attention over time.

The currency of life isn’t money. It is not even time. It’s attention.

In the war of attention, outwit, outlast, outplay.

What you trade your attention for is what your life becomes. The real currency of life is attention. A rational person should cultivate indifference to things that are out of their control.

The Art of Misdirection - Attention shapes your reality

Commencement Address by Jonathan Haidt at New York University