Attention economy - 注意力经济时代 

我们自己并不能把注意力仅仅看作数字化的资源，而是我们自己存在本身，我们看待这个世界的窗口。

“My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.”

--William James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol.1

🔗Paraphrase/💡Language Point:

1. 这首诗的只言片语都蕴涵着丰富的含义。

Every phrase in this poem is pregnant in meaning.

2. 他的睫毛膏被泪水弄糊了。

Tears smudged his mascara. 

3. 那位画家的右手握着画笔，左手拿着调色盘。

The painter's right hand holds the brush, and the left the palette. 

4. 满目青山夕照明。

On all sides, verdant sunset-bathed hills greet the eye. 

5. 一阵微风将玫瑰的香味从敞开的窗子里送进来。

A gentle breeze wafted the scent of roses in through the open window. 

6. 波涛澎湃 - booming waves

7. 不透明的玻璃 - opaque glass

8. 我们忙了一整周，所以我计划周末要休息放松一下。

We've been busy all weekday, so I plan to have a downtime on the weekend. 

9. 社交媒体信息的狂轰滥炸 - a onslaught of social media's information

严冬的侵袭 - onslaught of bitter winter

10. 腌制鸡肉至少四个小时 - marinate the chicken for at least 4 hours

11. 周围人声嘈杂。

All around was bubbling a cacophony of voices. 

12. 被某人的魅力所倾倒，答应了他的请求

succumbed to his charms and agreed to his request

13. 季风气候、季风雨，雨季 - monsoon climate/rain

14. clog = obstruct/block

15. dopamine - a chemical found in the brain that acts as a neurotransmitter and is an intermediate compound in the synthesis of noradrenaline. Formula: (HO)2C6H3(CH2)2NH2

16. 夏日烈日 - punishing summer sun

天空的调色板从绚烂的琥珀色变成了阴沉的蓝紫色。

The palette changes from verdant amber from moody violet. 

17. 在这样一个分秒必争、痴迷于效率、注意力匮乏的社会，我们的大脑渴求着这样的雨季。

In this time-pressed, deadline-obsessed, attention-less society, a monsoon season is what our brains are thirsting for. 

18. 屏幕提供的信息 - screen-fed information

19. 难怪我们白天花47%的时间在神游。

No wonder we engage in daydreaming 47 percent of the time. 

20. 不要一直将自己腌制在世俗认知中，创造一种喧嚣（你自己都无法听到自己的声音）。

Don't marinate yourself in conventional wisdom, creating a cacophony in which it is impossible to hear your own voice. 

21. 科技的每一件产物都在迷人地闪烁着、嗡鸣着、叫响着，希望吸引我们的注意力。

Each piece of technology seductively blinks, beeps and chimes, begging for our attention. 

22. 长此以往，这种令人上瘾的模式会侵蚀我们天然的认知边界，让我们成为我们手中电子产品的奴隶。

Over time, this addictive pattern erodes our natural cognitive coastline, making us slaves to our devices. 

23. 他给一位疯狂的公司总裁当私人助理，压力很大。

He was a hard-pressed personal assistant to a frenetic company chairman. 

24. 在开始项目之前，为行动做好准备。

Clear the decks before starting this project

25. 绿宝石和粉珊瑚制成的精美项链

elaborate necklace of turquoise and pink coral

26. 小说家将这一真实事件讲得引人入胜，使人仿佛置身其中。

The novelist, tells an enthralling true story in a way that makes it read like a novel.

27. 揭开冰川时代的奥秘

unveil/unravel the mystery of Ice Age 

28. 鹿、狐狸和松鼠生活在森林地带。

Deer, fox and squirrels are among the denizens of the forest. 

29. 充满了奇技妙想 - full of artfulness and artifice

30. 我们的工资只涨了可怜的1%。miser - 守财奴，吝啬鬼

We were offered a miserly 1% pay rise. 

31. 她使自己适应清闲的乡村生活。（attune)

She has attuned herself to living in the quiet/tranquil country. 

32. 所有动物都需要充足的睡眠来补充能量。

All creatures need abundant sleep to replenish their energies. 

33. 作者的新书沿袭了之前写作的一贯风格。

The author's new book is in a similar vein to his previous works. 

同理 - In a similar vein

34. stimulus - (pl.) stimuli

35. aversion toward sth. 对.....的厌恶

36. This small private space really offers a much-needed mental slowdown. 

37. 大辞职浪潮 - the Great Resignation 

38. 置身于喧嚣 - amid crowds and clutter

39. resiliency - n. 弹性；跳回

40. 专注当下的模式 - a present-oriented mindset 

41. ruminate v. 沉思；反刍；默想；琢磨；反省；认真思考；深思熟虑

Stop marinating yourself in toxic rumination or any kinds of overthinking. 

42. It is no small task to live a life of sustained attention. 

一生都保持注意力专注，绝非易事。

🎯Summary 个人总结 

Attention shapes/forms our entire experience of the world. However, in such a time-pressed age, our brains cannot sustain the data onslaught/bombarding. Finally we are trapped in attention-less conundrum and cannot keep up with today's attentional demands.  

Detrimental VS devastating

📰Background Information/Words of Wisdom (WOW!)

1. 多任务导致的瓶颈效应 - multitasking creates the "bottleneck" effect

2. 注意力残留 - attention enduring effect

3. 斯金纳的小白鼠🐀 - The Skinner box, otherwise known as an operant conditioning chamber, is a laboratory apparatus used to study animal behavior within a compressed time frame.  突然想到巴普洛夫的🐕

4. attentional bias - 注意力偏向 

5. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals(2021) 凡人的时间管理

6. DMN - Default Mode Network - 默认神经网络“自动驾驶模式”

7. Attention restoration theory - Nature replenish our ability to concentrate and pay attention.

8. 真正放松的方式 - 走入大自然，按摩大脑（找沉浸式放松体验的事情）i.e. love-making, playing with kids, physical exercises, 冥想训练（允许一切发生，不要消极反刍）

9. 很多时候我们能不能彼此理解，关键在于我们的注意力是放在了“自我保护”上，还是放在了去真正理解“对方想要表达什么”上。 - Karen老师的概况和讲述简直醍醐灌顶！！！金句Get！！！

10. 摆脱坏习惯的方式，是用好习惯填补它。（想吃东西的孤独感 - 聊天/听博客；注意力不集中，刷手机 - 外刊打卡/看书）—— 找到自己的"心流"(flow)