540. Be Prepared to Defend

When out and about in the world, keep your mind present in the here and now. Let your attention be open and free, do not let it get captured. Keep your knees slightly bent and your guard up at all times.

498. Too Much Information

A wealth of information creates poverty of attention. Balance your information receiving time (lectures, reading etc.) with an equal amount of time dedicated to Meditation and Creative Thinking. Meditation will restore attention. Learn to develop selective active ignorance by deliberately ignoring information that is :

(a) Irrelevant
(b) Unimportant
(c) Un-actionable

The same goes for interruptions.

"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant." -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

483. Wisdom and Problems

Remember that no matter what happens or whatever challenges arise, if you are wise, it is never a problem. The wise man never has problems, merely situations that require his attention.

343. Observation

Sharpen and keep sharp your skills of observation and raise tour level of awareness, your attention. Start playing Kim's Game (Rudyard Kipling and Baden Powell), using a tray full of objects. Look at them for 1 minute then see how many you can remember.

One of the reasons we do this is that the range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. Because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change and grow until we begin to notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts words and deeds. - R.D.Laing