“People who are diagnosed as having "generalized anxiety disorder" are afflicted by three major problems that many of us experience to a lesser extent from time to time. First and foremost, says Rapgay, the natural human inclination to focus on… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Arguably the mos intriguing characteristic assessed by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), a widely used test developed by the University of Minnesota's eminent psychologist Auke Tellegen, is "absorption," which describes a particular style of focusing. If you get a high… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Because you actually might not know what activities truly engage your attention and satisfy you, he says, it can be helpful to keep a… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Research shows that when they confront a potentially unpleasant situation, such as some unfriendly faces at a gathering, these extraverts are apt to shift… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh:… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.” — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Einstein didn't invent the theory of relativity while he was multitasking at the Swiss patent office." quoting, David Meyer, a cognitive scientist at the… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“However, by Sunday noon--not coincidentally, the unhappiest hour in America--you may have run through your options and wind up slumped on a couch, suffering… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“In a variation on James's recipe for interesting experience--the familiar leavened by the novel--Hobbs's "art of choosing difficulties" requires selecting projects that are "just… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“I'll live the focused life, because it's the best kind there is.” — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Whenever you squander attention on something that doesn’t put your brain through its paces and stimulate change, your mind stagnates a little and life… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Among these temperamentally unhappy campers are "reactant" personalities, who focus on what they often wrongly perceive as others' attempts to control them. In one… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“After he wrote The Paradox of Choice, Schwartz got fervent amens from European governments as well as individual readers for insisting that the management… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Living the focused life is not about trying to feel happy all the time…rather, it’s about treating your mind as you would a private… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
