“I'll live the focused life, because it's the best kind there is.” — Winifred Gallagher Life 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… — Winifred Gallagher Enriches 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… — Winifred Gallagher Flower 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… — Winifred Gallagher Einstein 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… — Winifred Gallagher Anxiety 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… — Winifred Gallagher Change Copy Share Image
“People who are diagnosed as having "generalized anxiety disorder" are afflicted by three major problems that many of us experience to a… — Winifred Gallagher Anxiety 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… — Winifred Gallagher Discipline 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… — Winifred Gallagher Commitment 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… — Winifred Gallagher Shift Attention 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… — Winifred Gallagher Focus 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… — Winifred Gallagher Books 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… — Winifred Gallagher Existential crisis 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… — Winifred Gallagher Art 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.… — Winifred Gallagher Conscious awareness 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… — Winifred Gallagher Adversity Copy Share Image
“this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.” — Winifred Gallagher Disgust Copy Share Image
“Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy.” — Winifred Gallagher Mental health Copy Share Image
“...In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.” — Winifred Gallagher Architects 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… — Winifred Gallagher Absorption Copy Share Image
“If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes.… — Winifred Gallagher Concentrating Copy Share Image
“Consciousness, which is the "reflective" element of Norman's conceptual brain, handles the "higher" functions at the metaphorical tip of the very top… — Winifred Gallagher Consciousness Copy Share Image
“Recently, the search for what he calls "the splinters that make up different attention problems" has taken Castellanos in a new direction.… — Winifred Gallagher Task Copy Share Image
“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… — Winifred Gallagher Driving force Copy Share Image
“Horse Frightened by a Lion depicts a majestic stallion in a very different situation. Stubbs painted this magnetic masterpiece to illustrate the… — Winifred Gallagher Fear Copy Share Image
