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nicotinic receptors respond to nicotine, whether smoked or chewed, & they're spread throughout the brain
for all the problems it causes to out overall health, it's well established that nicotine can improve the rate of signal detection when a person has been misdirected-that is, nicotine creates a state of vigilance that allows 1 to become more detail oriented & less dependent on top-down expectations

awareness of out central executive a system of very limited capacity that can generally attend to a maximum of 4 or 5 things at a time
To recap, there are 4 components in the human attentional system: the mind-wandering mode, the central executive mode, the attentional switch, which directs neural and metabolic resources among the mind-wandering, stay-on-task, or vigilance modes
you are yo insula 1 lazy fuck

fuck yo switching cost the insula-the attentional switch- the seesaw between the central executive system & mind wondering varies person to person in some functioning like a well-oiled machine & in others like a rusty gate but switch it does & if called upon to switch too much or too often we fell tired and a bit dizzy as though we were see-sawing too rapidly

neuroscientists now think of the brain- as a set of intricate overlapping networks
mind-wondering works in opposition to the central executive mode when 1 is activated the other is deactivated the job of the central executive network is to prevent you from being distracted when you're engaged in a task limiting what will enter your consciousness so that you can focus on what you're doing uninterrupted

the more mind wondering is suppressed the greater the accuracy of performance on the task at hand
paying attention to something takes effort
attention has a cost it is a this-or-that, zero-sum game
when we pay attention to 1 thing, we are necessarily taking attention away from something else

daydreaming & mind-wandering we know are the natural state of the brain
this accounts for why we feel so refreshed after it, & why vacations & naps can be restorative Marcus Raichle- default mode- no single thought is demanding response
the brain is mind-wondering when you're not engaged in a task, & it hijacks your consciousness if the task you're doing is boring
higher level things we do "the central executive"

1 thing HSPs every day is active sorting what emergency room nurses call triage comes from the French word trier meaning "to sort, sift, or classify"
4 piles
things that need to be dealt with right away business associates, bills, legal docs
things that are important but can wait the abeyance pile reviewed investment reports, articles
things that are not important & can wait holiday cards
things to be throw out

30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just 11 account for 93% of all that humans eat; oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.

all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts
switch attention comes with a high cost additional switching
the attentional filter evolved to help us stay on task
to pay attention to 1 thing means we don't pay attention to something else
Attention is a limited-capacity resource

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