EP: 38 - Attention: What Owns Your Attention Owns Your Life
What owns your attention owns your life.
We spend enormous amounts of time thinking about how to manage our time, our work and our ambitions. But perhaps the more interesting question is where our attention actually goes—and what happens when we stop noticing.
In this episode of Sutterfaction, Evan Sutter explores attention as something more than focus. He considers its relationship with awareness, agency, ethics and flourishing, and asks what happens when algorithms, ambition, anxiety, technology and habit all compete for the same finite resource.
If death asks us “What matters?”, perhaps attention asks the harder question:
“Does my life reflect it?”