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title: attention
created: 2024-11-18T09:16:50
modified: 2025-11-16T07:24:51
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> _“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.” ― Simone Weil, [Simone Weil: An Anthology](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/85237)_

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Everyone (and everything) is competing for your attention, use it wisely, you don’t get the [time](time-is-the-most-valuable-asset.md) back! Your [energy](energy-management.md) flows to where your attention goes.

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[Just remember: if you don’t have attention, you don’t have time. Time without attention is worthless, so value attention over time.](https://tim.blog/2007/10/25/weapons-of-mass-distractions-and-the-art-of-letting-bad-things-happen/)

[The currency of life isn’t money. It is not even time. It’s attention.](https://x.com/naval/status/1889248439827153209)

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In the war of attention, **outwit**, **outlast**, **outplay**.

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[What you trade your attention for is what your life becomes.](https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1/may-1-2025) [The real currency of life is attention. A rational person should cultivate indifference to things that are out of their control.](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ii4YJK_-RTk)

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[The Art of Misdirection - Attention shapes your reality](https://youtu.be/GZGY0wPAnus)