Attention is shaping you

# Chapter 319

Attention is shaping our lives. It excludes most things, and zero’s in on a few key things for most people and that exclusion and focus becomes the lines and substance of this thing we call life. What are you paying attention to?? Pay attention to what you are paying attention to, because that is who you are becoming, that is who you are, that is who you will be. Just sit back and think about it for a few minutes and you will see the truth of it. So here is the deal, you get to choose what you pay attention to. Here in the wealthy West, you have housing and food taken care of and that in turn frees you up to make other choices - choices about what you pay attention to with that sharp mind and all those resources you have at your disposal.

This amazing luxury was largely unknown in the historical world, but is actually commonplace today. This is the most interesting time in history to be alive - and it isn’t at the same time, because people aren’t paying attention to what they are paying attention to! They are YouTubing and FaceBooking and watching TV, which are all mindless passive methods to becoming nothing much at all. These are not the actions of change-the-world people. These are not the actions or choices of people who are paying attention to what they are paying attention. Therefore they are being shaped into the form of a consumer, a taker, a purchaser of needless goods, a non-thinking entity, something quite other than they imagine themselves to be.