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**Adam Stacoviak:** Oh, really? \[laughter\] Well, that's where I grew up, so we're the exact opposite. |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** So I was -- goodness gracious; probably late twenties before I had that. And the pressure, when it's a two-lane road, as based on the car behind you, who's like "Come on." I mean, they're gonna tail, big time, until you speed up. I was like "I do not like this. This doesn't feel good." And vic... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Hijacked because of it. |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Yeah. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Well, I think in scenarios like that - or others similar to it - we don't always fully examine our options. To someone, the option to pull over and maybe put your arm out the window and wave them by isn't an option considered, therefore not explored. So being able to slow your mind down enough to co... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Yup. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Because you could have just slowed down, the person could have gotten irate and been one of those people behind you and it turned into a road rage situation... But instead, in this hypothetical situation, potentially real at some point in your life, you pulled over, or you slowed down at least and y... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Yup. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** And they went by, and everyone was safe and happy. |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Yeah. So recognizing that we can actually change in response... It doesn't mean it's what I wanted per se, but I could choose to just keep going, and expect them to do it, and then when they don't, like "Well, this guy/girl, I can't believe!!" and I come in to work and I'm steamin' hot... It's... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yes... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** We all be people. We all be people. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** \[44:02\] True that. |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** \[laughs\] Right? How's that for educated? |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yes, that's good. It's good. So there's a lot more than these four... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Sure. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** There's a lot of distortions, and I'm not even sure if it's a truly comprehensive, stamped by a doctor, approved list, or whatever... I don't know how authoritative these distortions can be in a list; you could help our audience out there, but... There's more than this. What do we want people to do ... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Well, I'm so glad you asked... We talked about how important the awareness is. That's sort of step one - if I'm not aware, I can't change what I don't know I do. So that, and then the reframe relative to "Get other information". What is the context of the thoughts I'm thinking? Do they tend to... |
And then finally, I think it's helpful for people to consider the way in which there is the benefit. Because once upon a time it did pay us, in a way, to use these... But there might be a way that it's continuing to benefit you. So how did these thought patterns help you cope with something in your past? For example, d... |
It's challenging when dealing with our own mind, because it's one abstract. I can't pull out my thoughts, and in a sense manipulate them with my hands in a tactile way... But recognizing that there are ways in which we've used these to sort of work for us - it's important to be able to recognize the way in which you ac... |
So when we recognize that we can direct our lives just in considering the way that we think - like I mentioned, with the soil, of going "What do you want to grow in your life?" And that at different times, in different ways, that facilitated not necessarily the growth you wanted in that way, but that it was more rooted... |
• The relationship between attention, energy, and focus |
• Aristotle's warning that distraction will be the cause of humanity's demise |
• The ease of getting distracted by modern technologies and media |
• The concept of curiosity and how it can lead to both discovery and distraction |
• The role of executive function in managing attention and making choices |
• The idea that attention is a limited resource that can be directed and managed |
• The importance of awareness and mindfulness in maintaining focus and avoiding distractions |
• The concept of neuroplasticity and the brain's ability to adapt and change |
• The brain processes information from both bottom-up and top-down systems, with attention being a multi-faceted resource |
• Bottom-up processing involves sensory data influencing attention, while top-down processing involves higher cognitive functions and expectations shaping attention |
• Emotion plays a significant role in attention, creating hiccups and disruptions that can be either adaptive or maladaptive |
• Fear is an adaptive signal that can be misinterpreted if not understood, and learning to translate fear into useful information is crucial for goal-setting and achieving |
• Discernment is key to determining when to follow intuition and emotion versus rational thinking in decision-making |
• The use of fear as a feedback mechanism to push personal goals and boundaries |
• Recognizing intuition and fear as signals that can indicate potential harm or threat |
• The analogy of attention being like a camera lens with different focal lengths (wide vs narrow) |
• Using this metaphor to understand how to navigate and manage awareness, pain, and fear in daily life |
• Leveraging fear to make wise choices and optimize personal endeavors |
• The concept of vulnerability in creative pursuits and personal branding |
• Vulnerability and its role in attention |
• Divided vs sustained attention |
• Flow state and its benefits |
• Brain waves (alpha, theta, beta) and their relationship to flow state |
• Training oneself to achieve optimal performance and peak flow states |
• Optimizing life for distraction-free scenarios and peak performance |
• Using constraints and deliberate efforts to impose productivity and focus |
• Distractions both from within and outside oneself |
• The importance of boundaries and constraints to maintain focus |
• The role of the environment in influencing one's state of mind and productivity |
• The impact of technology on attention and distraction (specifically smartphones) |
• Techniques for imposing constraints to cultivate a state of flow, such as disconnecting Wi-Fi or playing specific music |
• The concept of "habits" and how the environment can cue brain activity to promote desired behaviors |
• Mixing environments (e.g. work vs. exercise) can lead to guilt or shame and negatively impact productivity |
• Building skills and awareness for self-improvement |
• Managing painful or negative emotions through distraction |
• Types of distractions: sensory (external) vs emotional (internal) |
• Using divided attention to shift focus away from aversive thoughts/feelings |
• Distraction as a tool for falling asleep, including ASMR |
• Discussion of sensory deprivation tanks and relaxation states |
• The role of attention in sleep and daily struggles with focus |
• Examples of common techniques for falling asleep (e.g. counting sheep, backward counting) |
• Exercise to practice focusing one's attention on a specific task or stimulus |
• Importance of self-discovery and awareness of internal-external interplay |
**Mireille B. Reece, Psy.D:** I think we've said this before, that where attention goes, energy flows. So the more that I focus on something, I tend to feed that, and make that grow. It's interesting, because I think attention and focus is something that all of us struggle with in one way or another... And I think it w... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** That's right. |
**Mireille B. Reece, Psy.D:** You know, binge-watching Game of Thrones was not something they had to resist. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Good luck... Yes. Season eight though, however - that's a different story, season eight. |
**Mireille B. Reece, Psy.D:** \[laughs\] Season eight. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Seasons eight, that's all I'll say. Season eight. Everybody knows... But yes, so true. I mean, I don't watch The Bachelor or The Bachelorette; not because they're terrible TV shows or any sort of personal reasons, but I personally don't have a desire to watch them. However, I do. |
**Mireille B. Reece, Psy.D:** Right. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** My wife watches them, so I hang with my wife, and next thing you know, I'm enthralled in the drama or what's going on, and I wanna know "Why would she do that to him?" or "Why would he do that to her? Why did they like him?", or whatever the situation is. It's so easy to get distracted. |
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