Ebook {Epub PDF} Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher

 · If physically we are what we eat, mentally and emotionally we are what we pay attention to. Winifred Gallagher wrote about the effects of attention in her book, Rapt: Attention and Focused Life. Her book was important in , only two years after the iPhone entered our lives. It is ten times more valuable a decade later. The impacts of attentionEstimated Reading Time: 7 mins. A revolutionary look at how what we pay attention to determines how we experience life Acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher's Rapt makes the radical argument that much of the quality of your life depends not on fame or fortune, beauty or brains, fate or coincidence, but on what you choose to pay attention to/5(). 7 rows ·  · Acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher's Rapt makes the radical argument that ISBN

Your life is the creation of what you focus on-and what you donΓÇÖt. But what is ΓÇ£attentionΓÇ¥, exactly? Can we train our focus? What happens in the brain. Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life, by Winifred Gallagher, Penguin Press, pages, $ These days, there's no better way to get people talking than to mention how distracted you've become. Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life Paperback - 30 March by. Winifred Gallagher (Author) › Visit Amazon's Winifred Gallagher Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Winifred Gallagher (Author) out of 5 stars. ratings.

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life Date. May 7, it might be time to re-examine the role of focused attention in the modern world. Winifred Gallagher. Your life is the creation of what you focus on-and what you donΓÇÖt. But what is ΓÇ£attentionΓÇ¥, exactly? Can we train our focus? What happens in the brain. Winifred Gallagher’s Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life readily merits its readers’ sustained attention. Gallagher persuasively shows how whatever we focus on is—quite literally—how we spend our lives. Our attention, in other words, is like currency. So the ways we choose to spend it determine the caliber and character of our experience.