Odin's Ravens

I’ve long been aware what a dreadful attention sink we’re in now as a society. It’s a topic that Laura Marsh talks about in the March 27, 20...

The more I consider it, the more I realize that attention, properly directed, is the solution to many of our difficulties.  We tend to unde...

Theoretical philosopher Thomas Metzinger warns we are being overwhelmed as “…social media and tech firms aim to maximize user engagement by ...

“Despite its great powers, attention cannot step beyond (its) limits,” observed Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book F...

“The key to the transformational potential of bare attention lies in the deceptively simply injunction to separate out one’s reactions fro...

“Like a stray dog that has no owner, the stray thoughts that are attended to with bare attention are treated as if they, too, are ownerles...

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the b...

By Dan Hagen   Over the course of months, I’ve become increasingly convinced of the underrated existential importance of the simple act o...

Late yesterday afternoon, while waiting in the car in a parking lot in the rain, I was fascinated to notice that the sun, shining through t...

By Dan Hagen Mindfulness. Examining one’s thoughts as if they were as remote as the dancing reflection in the pond of the distant str...