Summary of Winifred Gallagher's Rapt

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Focusing attention is a skill that can be learned and improved upon. It is the key to designing your daily experience, because it allows you to decide what to focus on and what to suppress.
#2 Your attention is constantly being focused on different targets, and you must choose what to attend to in constructing your daily experience. Near Central Park’s Strawberry Fields, some bird lovers have scattered lots of seed in a clearing, creating an avian mosh pit that’s a natural laboratory for experimenting with biased competition.
#3 When you first enter the feeding area, your attention is stimulus-driven, and you glance randomly at the busy tableau. When you decide to focus on a particular target, such as a little woodpecker called the yellow-bellied sapsucker, your attention is active and goal-oriented.
#4 Your attentional system, like the magician, focuses you on some things at the expense of others. As you continue your stroll, you realize that although you vividly recall that top-hatted trickster, with the exception of a woman in a bright violet jacket who stood right beside him, you only fuzzily recall the rest of the scene.

Sujets

• Cognition
• Psychology
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Cognitive Psychology

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• EAN13: 9798822506244
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Winifred Gallagher's Rapt
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Focusing attention is a skill that can be learned and improved upon. It is the key to designing your daily experience, because it allows you to decide what to focus on and what to suppress.

#2

Your attention is constantly being focused on different targets, and you must choose what to attend to in constructing your daily experience. Near Central Park’s Strawberry Fields, some bird lovers have scattered lots of seed in a clearing, creating an avian mosh pit that’s a natural laboratory for experimenting with biased competition.

#3

When you first enter the feeding area, your attention is stimulus-driven, and you glance randomly at the busy tableau. When you decide to focus on a particular target, such as a little woodpecker called the yellow-bellied sapsucker, your attention is active and goal-oriented.

#4

Your attentional system, like the magician, focuses you on some things at the expense of others. As you continue your stroll, you realize that although you vividly recall that top-hatted trickster, with the exception of a woman in a bright violet jacket who stood right beside him, you only fuzzily recall the rest of the scene.

#5

Attention’s selective nature is a important reason why your reality is quirkier and less complete than you assume. You don’t focus on the world in the abstract, but in sync with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience.

#6

Your attentional system helps you turn sensory information into a coherent event. You can quickly take in a complex new scene, such as the path that bisects the Central Park Zoo, but your eyes only see sharply and in full color around your focal point, which is the shiny black beast that’s catching a fish tossed by its keeper.

#7

Attention is the key to awareness, and it is selective, this-or-that nature. It allows you to create a coherent but also custom-tailored reality. The things you focus on, such as that physically salient blue jay and psychologically high-value sapsucker, will win turf in your brain and influence over your experience, while the losers, like the greyish-brownish avian hoi polloi, for your purposes don’t exist.

#8

To enjoy the kind of experience you want, you must take charge of your attention. By choosing to focus on something specific, you have a very specific experience. If you had paid rapt attention to flora rather than fauna, or to thinking over a personal problem or chatting with a companion, your time there would have been very different.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Attention is the organizing force of your experience, and it orders your ideas and emotions. It gives you a comprehensible but also limited inner reality. The inextricable relationship between thought and emotion is one of the most important discoveries in modern psychology.

#2