#60- Attention, Neuroscience, and Who We Are

Laurie & Matt pivot to a health and wellness focus for 2021, adhering to the familiar advice of securing their own oxygen masks before helping the child in the seat next to them in the great airplane of life. They start by focusing on ATTENTION, and how our brains are shaped by what we choose to feed it. The algorithms have their own agenda for what we should pay attention to, but are their suggestions really crafting the person we want to be and the life we want to live? Thoughtfully curating the items we train our attention on, and in turn shape our brains and ourselves, is as good a place to start a new year as any Laurie & Matt can imagine.

Items mentioned in the show: the books "Why Don't Students Like School?" by Daniel T. Willingham, "The Distracted Mind" by Adam Gazzaley & Larry D. Rosen, and the podcast "Making Sense" with Sam Harris, episode #226 (The Price of Distraction).

Matt references the SchoolRubric livestream event he moderated with Matt Rhoads, Serena Pariser, and Steven "ETIENNE" Langlois (all guests of our podcast in 2020) on educators becoming authors. Watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB3LQ1kGRuQ&t=4s

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