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The quiet art of attention

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865 points billwear | 1 comments | 13 Oct 24 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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fzeroracer ◴[13 Oct 24 19:51 UTC] No.41830987[source]▶
I'm going to be That Guy and say I didn't particularly care for this piece. it reads like every single self-help or mindfulness book I've had the misfortune of skimming or having pushed down on me.

That isn't to say I fully discount mindfulness but rather the art of people being able to say a lot about ultimately nothing.

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1. keybored ◴[14 Oct 24 15:36 UTC] No.41838521[source]▶
It resonated with me.

I am partial to the mindfulness idea. But that doesn’t mean that I like everything that it is written on the topic. Some pieces on the topic are a bit too opinionated on what exactly mindfulness and attention are. Too opinionated to be short pieces on it. But this one just says that you can be curious about what the mind does and observe that it has a mind of its own. Which is true in my experience.

Your critique is fair of course.