Tag Archives: attention

Great Read Roundup: Mindfulness, Convenience & A**holes

An ongoing feature in Tuesday Tactics is our “Great Read Roundup” in which we highlight some of the best pieces we’ve read recently and why they might expand your mind or help with your real estate career. 4 Simple Exercises to Strengthen Your Attention & Reduce Distractibility (9 minute read) Why it matters: ”Tame the wandering [...]

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Free Your Mind from the Facebook Feed

Here’s an interesting browser plug-in we thought those of you addicted to social media might appreciate. Break your Facebook addiction with “News Feed Eradicator.” From the plug-in description page: “Do you often want to check Facebook, and then find yourself disappearing for hours as you are consumed by the bottomless pit that is the News Feed? [...]

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Apps to Help You Reclaim Your Attention

Can you remember the last time you were in complete control of your own attention? Do you find your phone in your hand during any fleeting moment of boredom?Essayist Craig Mod recently asked himself this question in an article for Backchannel titled “How I Got My Attention Back.” The piece is well worth your attention. [...]

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Scott’s Thoughts: Opting-in to Ourselves

“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.” -Jose Ortega y Gasset, (May 9, 1883 — October 18, 1955) Spanish philosopher and essayist. One of the most profound shifts in our culture in the past twenty years has been our relationship to information and the way it impacts [...]

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Great Read Roundup: Managing Your Mindset

An ongoing feature in Tuesday Tactics is our “Great Read Roundup” in which we highlight some of the best pieces we’ve read recently and why they might expand your mind or help with your real estate career. Mind Management (Not Time Management) (6 minute read) Why it matters: Writer David Kadavy believes “productivity is less about [...]

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Scott’s Thoughts: Feeding Fear

“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” -Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872 – February 2, 1970), philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate Now more than ever we face a constant feed of the world’s trauma. Often what we [...]

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