How attention determines the quality of your life

Claudia Brose
2 min readNov 8, 2021
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Paying attention is not about being open, considerate and mindful to everything and everybody around you. It’s about being aware of those selected things that help you to create life and work that satisfies you.

The art of the attentive lifestyle is a way to make choices about not letting others take your attention away so they can add a digit to their followers, get money for your clicks or pull you into the rabbit hole of useless information.

If you live an attentive lifestyle you keep control over your potential to pay attention, which means you keep control over your time, energy, and brainpower.

I believe the quality of your attention determines the quality of your life.

Why attention and what is it?

How we experience the world depends crucially on how we deal with our attention. Today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment is attention. It is an important asset that we too easily waste instead of treasuring.

Paying attention encompasses three essential skills, which makes it so valuable.

1. The art of being able to focus your attention

2. The willingness to pay sufficient attention to yourself, your loved ones, and the people…

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Claudia Brose

Writer, Event-Creator, Marketing Professional turned Rebel against a rushed world | Japan mad | Cyclist | Get my Newsletter Un-Rush claudiabrose.substack.com