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139 breakout: attention tracking: conference: Quantified Self 2011
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patterns of ionic flow
being in flow for the right reasons
this interesting
you're totally in flow
whether or not you're focusing
you learn how to concentrate and relax intentionally
the ADHD
doing across
a calibration
are you focusing more?
whether or not you can get into that state
getting into that focus state
14 to concentrate
it's like exercising a muscle that you never knew you had
to do focus
they could focus right away
concentrating on a point
the diversity of attention
my mind would start drifting off
everybody has to figure out what works for them
4 the attention economy
that we're not paying attention
4 Michael Goldhaber
the new wealth
wealthier to the attention economy
having no secrets
freedom from having to pay attention
attention is some kind of substance
how inattentive we are
broad and immense
what we're paying attention to
expressions of attentiveness
how we're not paying attention
getting everything I need to be done and getting it done well
attention division
Adam Gazzaley
Dr. Adam Gazzaley
hyper attention experiments
the action potentials in the brain
flipping between
deep experimental research
when we're distracted
looking at messages
searching with some sort of connection with the world
there is the social anchor
social anchor
because we're seeking something
we're doing solitary things
we're doing solitary things, but we're social creatures
a good metric
constructive flow
caught on a distraction
that escapist brain wave
the right mix
to tell when a distraction begins
the smaller things I've notices
a need to distract myself from what I'm doing
to lock myself in my room a lot of the time
grabbing little pieces of human interaction
to stay on what I wanted to
to think about good flow as opposed to bad flow
fame/glory
to fame bait
what is the value of any kind of activity you're doing
that engagement
what would this be like from an external point of view
an open-ended thought
my open-ended question
throughout the course of the day
being focused on one thing at a time
there's a different optimal brain state for each task
you've got to be in sync
what best internal state is best suited to the task at hand?
naming brain states
learning outcomes
different people have different roles
to assess that you had the different states you wanted
2 story cards
what other units are there
to quantify for each one of these tasks
productivity is not the same thing as attention
2 a variation
1 feature story
task story
the feature story
stuff in there
researching for inspiration
this breakout session
veering toward hypotheses
to keep track of my attention
a random part of the screen
two things subconsciously
1 imaging studies
keeping track of the percentages
things that I'm not consciously thinking about
something I developed myself
doing bioinformatics
a decent metric
effective functioning
how well you can accomplish a test
how do you actually track what you're doing?
things I cared enough
what my day looked like
what my day looked like visualized
20 Betsy Burroughs
http://matttrent.com
maclogger
a very nice data format
16 the application
the effects of choice
I rate my mental energy
I rate my mental energy or focus
http://bit.ly/attntrck
sustained attention response task
how long it's going to take you to get on track
how long I can stay in a chair
things that don't track you
I would get angry and lose attention
people that do meditation at night
adderol
high concentration states
1 the melatonin
concentration benefits
the effects of fasting
2 flow state
1 getting into the flow state
mindful technology
1 forced association
1 the fastest way to feel good
a forced association technique
de Bono's "po"
3 the business problems
they write down a favorite thing
the felt associations with a favorite thing
5 Adam Weissman
1 Adam Weissman: private email
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