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Why task focus and meditative attention are completely different skills

I can concentrate for hours on work projects but ask me to sit quietly for five minutes and my brain turns into a tornado.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Directed attention toward external goals operates through different neural pathways than open awareness of present experience.

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“Where Are You with Attention and focus — the science?”

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