Mini Insights

Why paying attention improves your life experience

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These days, it cannot be overstated that not paying attention in our own lives can end up being costly, and may have serious or far-reaching consequences for ourselves and/or other people.

However, assuming you have no brain disease or injury, you can make your own valuable time more enjoyable, rewarding and less confusing when you choose to focus your mind.

The Benefits of Paying Attention

• When a person gives their full attention to anything, this assists their brain in retrieving the relevant information at a later date. Some people think they have a poor memory, but often it is simply that they were not paying full attention in the first place, which then makes it very difficult for their brain to retrieve sketchy bits of data that were not properly recorded in their memory to start with. There is no point in being concerned about your memory if you choose not to pay attention, the two go together.

‘I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention — (Diane Sawyer)

• You are more likely to notice the subtle nuances of conversations, i.e., things that are not said, but that are implied. However, if there is a lapse in your concentration, (listening…