“Your motivations--get that promotion, throw the best parties, run for public office--aren't impersonal abstractions but powerfully reflect who you are and what you focus on. An individual's goals figure prominently in the theories of personality first developed by the Harvard… — 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
