Derek: My perfect little life. Have you been paying attention at all? Miranda: Yeah, I pay attention. I pay attention! I pay attention to people in all walks of life, all types. I notice people. I ...

We begin to pay attention to something and then we start to judge it, evaluate it, categorize it and, yes, generally "criticize" it. But judging, while certainly useful, is not attention.

Let's face it: Even as business leaders, we can’t pay attention to everything at once. Doing so would be overwhelming. So, we filter things out. It’s the way we function in the world. We ...

Our series Pay Attention looks at how to retrain our focus and recapture our attention under the bombardment of technology and information that distracts us. The average person scrolls through 300 ...

STOLEN FOCUS Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again By Johann Hari. THE LOOP How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back By Jacob Ward.