Feeling heard and validated by other people in social interactions is a basic human need, as a PLOS One study suggests, which is why being around people who refuse to listen or pay attention is so ...

Attention isn’t a resource to maximize for productivity. It’s a gift that helps us love God and neighbor. In a digitally oversaturated society like ours, distraction is a daily sparring partner. What ...

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Let's start with some facts: Seventy-percent of people say they have a problem paying attention. The average attention span is eight seconds. After reading this sentence, it’s likely that you’re going ...

The modern world moves quickly. Notifications appear every minute. News cycles shift before you finish your morning tea. Many people feel they are always rushing somewhere. Work, messages, headlines, ...

Every relationship has uncomfortable topics. Not every difficult conversation signals doom. In fact, healthy couples regularly disagree and navigate tension. What tends to matter more than conflict ...

Mary Oliver once wrote a simple 3-step list of “Instructions for living a life: / Pay attention. / Be astonished. / Tell about it.” These days, attention is a market commodity, astonishment an ...

“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer,” the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil wrote. By Lauren Jackson I am the host of Believing. I didn’t really know who James Van ...