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<p>For a host of reasons, I had to put Oliver Burkeman's <em>Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals</em> down for a couple of weeks; there was the post-Thanksgiving crush at work, and then travel for a family event, and then travel for a conference, and then a <a href="https://about.hcommons.org/2024/12/10/kcworks-named-designated-public-access-repository-of-the-national-endowment-for-the-humanities/">big announcement</a> at work, and then, and then, and then. But I picked it back up this afternoon, and just tripped on this passage and fell flat on my face:</p>
<p>For a host of reasons, I had to put Oliver Burkeman's <em>Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals</em> down for a couple of weeks; there was the post-Thanksgiving crush at work, and then travel for a family event, and then travel for a conference, and then a <a href="https://about.hcommons.org/2024/12/10/kcworks-named-designated-public-access-repository-of-the-national-endowment-for-the-humanities/">big announcement</a> about a big project, and then, and then, and then. But I picked it back up this afternoon, and just tripped on this passage and fell flat on my face:</p>
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<p>Most other resources on which we rely as individuals—such as food, money, and electricity—are things that facilitate life, and in some cases it’s possible to live without them, at least for a while. Attention, on the other hand, just is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention. At the end of your life, looking back, whatever compelled your attention from moment to moment is simply what your life will have been. So when you pay attention to something you don’t especially value, it’s not an exaggeration to say that you’re paying with your life. Seen this way, “distraction” needn’t refer only to momentary lapses in focus, as when you’re distracted from performing your work duties by the ping of an incoming text message, or a compellingly terrible news story. The job itself could be a distraction—that is, an investment of a portion of your attention, and therefore of your life, in something less meaningful than other options that might have been available to you.</p>
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