Attention
I am beginning to see that mental attention is a fantastic resource. We can see that we can be embedded into the past/present or future depending on the rational form that we are working on.
This resource seems to me closely linked to our mental power and, by consequence, linked to our vital force. So it can be also viewed as a scarce resource, the problem is that when we have too much information we can't concentrate into a single topic and we end up losing focus.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. - Herbert A. Simon
Questions
- How do we focus correctly? How we decide what to focus on?