Attention


Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
Erik Pevernagie
Art can blow us out of our pigeon hole. In deafness it may shout or scream, in blindness it may arrest our attention, in numbness it may shake up our mind. If we don’t sense anything at all and take everything for granted, art can kick us in the ass, give a conscience and make us aware. ("When is Art?") ...more
Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie
In a world spoiled by the obituary of attention and the dormancy of empathy, people are coming up short of authentic emotion. (“The upper lip must never tremble”)
Erik Pevernagie

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