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One Idea That Separates The Dreamers From The Doers
It’s the One Thing We Have
Our attention. It’s the most valuable thing we’ve got.
Where we focus our thoughts and consequently, our time is massively important. It makes us who we are.
Every day we have somewhere between 16–18 hours of attention to give to the world. The rest we give unwillingly (or willingly) to our beds.
16–18 hours every day for an undisclosed amount of days, we never know when our time is up.
On that note, it’s perhaps important that we focus our attention on the things that bring us joy and spend a very little amount of time on the things that do not.
After all, as Audrey Hepburn said:
The most important thing is to enjoy your life, to be happy, it’s all that matters.
So it seems our only goal is to spend our time on the things that make us happy.
Why Attention is Important
The world is built to capture your attention. Bright colours, loud noises, bold text, increasing absurdity, anything to get your focus to shift.
It’s why TikTok videos are short and snappy — we generally tend to have a small attention span for video and so a platform that…
