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Attention, Please!(Brief article)
Byline: HANNAH MORRILL INTERVIEWS BY DANIELLE PERGAMENT, EMILY HSIEH, AND LIZ KRIEGER
Nobody likes being told to pay attention, but according to Winifred Gallagher, author of Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life (The Penguin Press), the phrase should be taken literally, not personally: "Attention is like mental moneyyou only have so much of it, and you have to spend it wisely."
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