Cell Phones vs. The Real World
We have become hypnotized by small glowing screens, tuning out driving, conversation, and the world. Here is what it costs and how to put the phone down.
Tag: Attention
Attention is the scarcest resource a writer competes for, and everything in the modern economy is bidding against you. These articles cover attention: how readers give it, how platforms harvest it, and how writing earns it honestly instead of tricking it.
AttentionBefore 2014 I Spent a Thousand Hours a Year Watching Other People’s Work
They say they are too busy to exercise, too tired to cook, too overwhelmed to read, and too stressed to see friends. Then they watch Netflix for four hours.
AlgorithmsAnger Gets Six Times the Engagement. The Rest Follows From That.
We saw the warning signs. Facebook was making us depressed, Twitter was making us angry, and we kept using them anyway.
AttentionLogical Fallacies Every Writer Should Recognize | Writing Guide
When a character's argument is built on a fallacy, readers feel it even when they cannot name it, the speech rings hollow, the nonfiction loses credibility, the character starts to sound manipulative. Spotting fallacies makes you better in both directions:…
AttentionHow to Write 10,000 Words a Day
Writing 10,000 words in a day sounds impossible until you see the machinery behind it. I do it on top of ghostwriting, blogging, and promotion, and the secret is not talent or typing speed. It is a system of goals,…
AttentionEliminating Distractions | What Happened When I Unplugged My TV for a Decade
I put my television in a closet and left it there for ten years. Friends thought I had lost my mind. What I gained was a decade of focus that produced more than 50 books and a business. Here is…
AttentionDan Shinder: The Power of Forgiveness and Choosing What You Expose Yourself To
Dan Shinder joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories for a warm conversation about mindset: the power of forgiveness, what NLP really is, escaping negative self-talk, and choosing who and what you expose yourself to.