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How successful golfers stay focused on those crucial shots
Meta-Attention
Meta-attention is a dynamic process, an internal algorithm that handles our attention, it’s knowledge and awareness.
It is an awareness of the spotlight that we are shining on the object of our attention while being in control of where the spotlight is moving or can be moved.
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Self-awareness and Observation
The practice of mindfulness meditation promotes self-awareness. It starts with concentration and observation. Observation is to notice without judgment or interpretation. It demands a form of obje...
Detachment
Detachment is the key to effective observation. In mindfulness practice, it requires that you become an observer of yourself. In order to do that, you have to learn to split your attention.
Great leaders are great observers
Modern leadership depends on relationships. Meaningful relationships emerge when you know and understand each other. Observing others is essential for effective communication, interpersonal skills, influencing people, managing group dynamics, and getting buy-in.
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The Brain’s Unique Signal-filtering Process
Even with massive amounts of information drowning our senses, we can focus on what is important and take action.
The brain’s ability to focus on a particular signal while filtering out the...
Attentional Searchlight
- While the prefrontal cortex region of the brain had long been studied by neuroscientists, a separate region of the brain, called thalamus came in the picture in 1984, by a new theory that suggested that the region acts as a gatekeeper of the senses, apart from being a relay centre.
- The region has a thin layer of inhibitory neurons wrapped around it, called the thalamic reticular nucleus(TRN), which acted as ‘gates’ and hid or removed some of the data that is not required at a given time, to establish a level of focus for the individual.
- The study found that the brain was lowering the unwanted signals to help us focus on the stimuli of interest.
Removal Of Signals: The Blinking Brain
The brain’s ability to focus on one thing while obscuring, curbing or reducing the signal strength of other (presumably unwanted) stimuli can be dangerous if those turn out to be unexpectedly important.
The brain, evolved as it is, has a unique way to handle this issue, by reducing the signal strength of the focused object about four times per second, suppressing what’s important to focus on the other signals, some of which may also be important. The brain is already wired to blink.
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Willpower Depletion
It is the idea that we place our willpower under much strain and as we put in much more effort into anything, the more it gets drained.
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The Lab vs The Real World
- Numerous studies have been performed by various researchers to indicate how real willpower depletion is and if it is even real at all.
- Even with the contention of its existence, some areas of research are showing promising studies that we can exert control over our willpower through workouts or rituals.
- It showed that even small, regular tests of willpower can give your self-control a lift. Willpower workouts don’t have to be especially taxing to have an effect.