Attention is the key to so many things related to our lives. We have to pay attention to walk across the street. We know our relationships are more satisfying if we actually pay attention to one ...

The author with her favorite bougainvillea. Source: Courtesy of Barbara Jaffe I have a keen ability to pay attention. I learned to "read the room" early on, especially when it wasn’t a friendly room; ...

Digital platforms are designed to instantly capture and hold your attention, by tapping into the brain’s reward and ...

I don’t have the best attention span in the world. Some of it probably has to do with the fact that I belong to the distracted generation. I’ve grown up with a phone in my pocket, and I’m attuned to ...

Feeling heard and validated by other people in social interactions is a basic human need, as a PLOS One study suggests, which is why being around people who refuse to listen or pay attention is so ...

Attention isn’t a resource to maximize for productivity. It’s a gift that helps us love God and neighbor. In a digitally oversaturated society like ours, distraction is a daily sparring partner. What ...

For more than a decade, I have hosted an hour-long cable TV show on MSNBC. When I got my own show, I imagined it as something akin to the experience of first-time car ownership. I could drive wherever ...