How to Reclaim Your Attention

Attention is not a resource that depletes. It is a capacity that gets shaped by practice. You have been practicing a particular kind of attention — fragmented, reactive, stimulus-driven — thousands of times a day. This course is about practicing a different kind. Not less technology. A fundamentally different relationship with your own mind. Four modules built on philosophy, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Each one ends with something to do. None of it is about willpower. What you'll cover: the neuroscience of variable reward and what is actually happening when you reach for your phone; the history of distraction through Pascal and Benjamin, and why this is not a new problem; the default mode network, boredom, and what you are actually recovering; and designing your attention charter, an intentional relationship with your mind and technology. You'll finish with a published piece teaching one framework that changed how you think about your own attention, designed to be shared with the Hot Literati community. What you need: a journal, a pen, and honesty about your actual experience. What you'll walk away with: an attention charter, a designed and intentional relationship with your own mind, and the beginning of a rebuilt practice.