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Paying attention is a subject I've been paying attention to for a long time.
Click my "paying attention" tag to see. There are almost 100 posts. I think a lot about the nature of paying attention, and I pay attention to my own paying of attention and analyze it. And, really, this blog is an archive of my paying of attention, because I only blog about what has caught and sustained my attention long enough to post about it. I've seized the freedom to live out my attention-paying in front of the world. You can see what catches me and what does not. I usually won't watch the news on television because I fixate on the visual and the emotional. All the facial expressions and gestures and styles and makeup! I love pausing and talking about it. In the old days, I used to pause it and draw the news characters (and then just grab some absurd snippet of what they were saying to put in a speech balloon).Anyway... this morning, I'm reading "Why Aren’t We Curious About the Things We Want to Be Curious About?/You’ve been clickbaited by your own brain" by the psychologist Daniel T. Willingham. I resist the subtitle. I think it's a positive thing that you can't force your brain to pay attention. It's a free spirit. It rebels, and it should, and you'd be a ghastly bore if it didn't.
But I don't to be a complete Unwillingegg. Let's give Willingham a chacnce:
When I’m surfing the web I want to be drawn in by articles on Europe’s political history or the nature of quasars, but I end up reading trivia like a menu from Alcatraz prison. Why am I not curious about the things I want to be curious about?...The easy answer is that you don't want what you're telling yourself you want. You only want to think of yourself as someone who wants that, and you're therefore already getting exactly what you want.
Willingham understands attention-paying through evolution:
Across evolutionary time, curious animals were more likely to survive because they learned about their environments; a forager that occasionally skipped a reliable feeding ground to explore might find an even better place to eat....So take your evolution-formed brain to "better foraging grounds." Willingham recommends "for example, JSTOR Daily, Arts & Letters Daily or ScienceDaily." He seems to accept the brain as it is, subject to "click bait," and gives a tip for getting better results from the impulses we inherited from ancestors who were motivated by problems we solved long ago.
[E]volution has left us with a brain that can reward itself; satisfying curiosity feels pleasurable, so you explore the environment even when you don’t expect any concrete payoff....
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