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We don't pay attention to boring things

What we pay attention to is profoundly influenced by memory. Our previous experience predicts where we should pay attention. Culture matters too. ________ in school or in business, these differences can greatly affect how an audience perceives a given presentation.

We pay attention to things like emotions, threats and sex. Regardless of who you are, the brain pays a great deal of attention to these questions: Can I eat it? Will it eat me? Can I mate with it? Will it mate with me? Have I seen it before?

The brain is not capable of multi-tasking. We can talk and breathe, but when it comes to higher level tasks, we just can’t do it.

Driving while talking on a cellphone is like driving drunk. The brain is a sequential processor and l arge fractions of a second are consumed every time the brain _______ tasks. This is why cell-phone talkers are a half second slower to hit the brakes and get in more wrecks.

Workplaces and schools actually encourage this type of multi-tasking. Walk into any office and you’ll see people sending e-mail, answering their phones, Instant Messaging, and on MySpace – all at the same time. Research shows your error rate goes up 50% and it takes you twice as long to do things.

When you’re always online you’re always distracted. So the always online organization is the always unproductive organization.

http://www.brainrules.net/attention - adapted.