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The ability to direct and sustain attention underlies every other cognitive capability.
Strong feelings about an observation usually mean it touches something important.
Deep engagement with fewer sources extracts more signal than shallow engagement with many. Depth builds the perceptual structures that make signal detection possible. Breadth, pursued without depth, produces the illusion of being informed while degrading your capacity to understand anything.
Strong emotional responses to information often indicate manipulation, not importance. Your triggers are not a relevance filter — they are a vulnerability map.
Instead of blocking noise, create systems that actively surface what matters.