How to pay attention

Writing on Reading Supply.

When I was a kid focus came naturally. I spent hours digging through the soil in my backyard looking for earthworms, lifting up their cool wriggling bodies when I found them. A spiderweb shiny with water after the rain could stop me in my tracks. The world felt porous and open; summer vacation seemed like it lasted for years. Though I understood objectively that time was moving forward, it seemed like my life in the present was all that existed: reading on the couch in the little white house where we lived with my grandparents, folding hundreds of dumplings on the weekend, trudging up the…

saved by

• Emily Hu
• Jaclyn
• Justin Wang
• brunella k
• Yorke Rhodes IV
• Harveen Brar
• Aileen Luo
• Jodi Sy
• Alana Wu

related reading

• intellectual malleabilitymindmine.substack.com
• pacingava.substack.com
• to pay / crave attention.sincerelykun.substack.com
• to pay / crave attention.sincerelykun.substack.com
• How to let goreading.supply
• how to pay attention again (the neuroscience of focus in the age of everything)substack.com
• How I Learned to Read Way, Way More - John Paul Brammerjohnpaulbrammer.substack.com
• This life gives you nothingblackbirdspyplane.com
• Ways of beingbitsofwonder.substack.com
• how to get smart againsubstack.com
• Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloomsubstack.com
• on maintaining attention - by Ava - bookbear expressavabear.xyz