Lesson 19: Changing Your View Of Your World: Slide 44
Paying Attention Is Key To Change
- Changes in the brain happen only when the new behaviors are specifically attended to
- Physical changes in the brain depend on a mental state in the mind, the state called attention
- Paying attention matters
- It matters for the brain’s ability to remake
itself and become efficient at carrying out
any new task, mental or physical
- When you focus, your brain knows what is important
Notes:
Pg. 224, Schwartz, Jeffrey M., 2002, “The Mind And The Brain,” Harper Collins Publishers, New York.
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