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Attention

What your mind does when nothing is demanded of it.

• How much of what you experience did you actually choose to notice?
  William James · The Principles of Psychology, ch. XI · 1890 · Attention
• What is your mind doing when it leaves the room?
  Jonathan Smallwood and Jonathan Schooler · The Science of Mind Wandering, Annual Review of Psychology 66 · 2015 · Attention
• Is an unhappy mind a wandering mind, or the reverse?
  Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert · A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind, Science 330 · 2010 · Attention
• What subject does your brain return to when nothing else claims it?
  Marcus Raichle and colleagues · A Default Mode of Brain Function, PNAS 98 · 2001 · Attention
• Why is passive leisure the least restorative part of the day?
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · Flow, from experience-sampling studies · 1990 · Attention

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