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Show Notes

• Why is attention a critical aspect to discuss? [01:39]
• Nasos and Andrea on having ADHD and figuring out [03:02]
• What are current conversations about ADHD? Why does Nasos think that modern society is prone to ADHD? [05:44]
• How does Gabor Maté’s approach to ADHD differ from Russel Barkley’s? [08:24]
• What are the two different modes of attention? [09:58]
• The secret to happiness as told in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist [12:19]
• Andrea on struggling to find the balance between the macro and the micro details in life [16:28]
• How do people commonly define attention? How does one relate to and frame attention better? [18:16]
• Does attention as currency work for society? How can the attention economy affect the quality of ideas and relationships? [23:46]
• How can social media be most beneficial to humans? [28:37]
• How has Andrea tried to be more conscious with his attention and where he directs it? [32:41]
• Why is attention dynamic? How does Nasos come up with solutions to attention deficit? [34:57]
• How does Nasos currently think about his relationship with attention? [40:28]
• Why does externalising a problem or an idea help in figuring it out? Why is it more efficient to focus on the quality of attention rather than quantity? [42:46]
• When does self-reflection start to become futile? [45:29]
• Why the key to paying more attention to things is to pay less attention to oneself [47:54]
• How does keeping attention dynamic give way to insight and creativity? [49:02]
• On why it is vital to pay attention to all the different aspects of life [51:43]
• Why is rest fundamental to learning? How is starting small more productive than going big? [59:08]
• What are the things that one should focus on in life? How do one’s values affect one’s priorities? [01:01:52]
• How can one deal with unclosed loops or open loops? How does one find peace in all the unfinished bits of life? [01:08:33]
• Why taking responsibility for mental disorders and behaviour patterns is crucial to having better discussions around mental health [01:13:05]
• Closing remarks [01:15:46]

Resources

• Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Maté
• Taking Charge of Adult ADHD by Russell Barkley
• The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Power of Mindful Learning by Ellen J. Langer

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