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Winifred Gallagher - From the Anxiety category:
- Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life...
Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals. (Winifred Gallagher)
Winifred Gallagher - From the Boredom category:
Whenever you squander attention on something that doesn't put your brain through its paces and stimulate change, your mind stagnates a little and life feels dull. (Winifred Gallagher)
Winifred Gallagher - From the Commitment category:
- Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life...
Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. (Winifred Gallagher)
Winifred Gallagher - From the Experience category:
Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness. (Winifred Gallagher)
Winifred Gallagher - From the Life category:
-Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life...
Living the focused life is not about trying to feel happy all the time... rather, it's about treating your mind as you would a private garden and being as careful as possible about what you introduce and allow to grow there. (Winifred Gallagher)
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