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Each person allocates his or her limited attention either by focusing it intentionally like a beam of energy or by diffusing it in desultory, random movements.
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The shape and content of life depend on how attention has been invested.
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Attention can be invested in innumerable ways, ways that can make life either rich or miserable.
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Attention determines what will or will not appear in consciousness.
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Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work it is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we invest this energy. Memories, thoughts, and
feelings are all shaped by how we use it.
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Attention is an energy under our control, to do with as we please; hence, attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.
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The self represents the hierarchy of goals that we have built up, bit by bit, over the years.
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