“you have an interest based attention system”
This is how Martha Beck was told she had ADHD.
“Do you people really pay equal amounts of attention to everything?!” she asked.
“We pay attention to what’s optimal.”
Source: Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan: How Creativity Trumps Anxiety on Unpublished Podcast with Amie McNee and James Winestock
AJ = Alan Jacobs (source)
AK = Austin Kleon (source)
We think we should be living in the chaotic, cacophonous megalopolis and retreat to our cottage only in desperate circumstances. But the reverse is true: our attention cottage should be our home, our secure base, the place from which we set out on our adventures in contemporaneity and to which we always make our nostos.
Alan Jacobs on The Attention Cottage