Attention Training

Great - another book about ADHD to add to the pile... But wait a second...what if this one’s a little bit different? What if you could spend time inside the head of one of the UK's most bespectacled comedians – Sue Perkins? What if you could be led by the ears into the vortex of her distracted mind? Well, first of all, she’ll need to be able to focus for long enough to write the thing…

Narrated by the author himself, in this provocative follow up to his New York Times bestselling The Echo Machine, David Pakman offers a dire warning on the cultural and technological forces that are already melting our brains and transforming the pursuit of truth into an almost impossible, even...

*A "Next Big Idea Club" Must-Read Book for January* *AS HEARD ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD* Rediscover your ability to pay attention with this groundbreaking new approach from "the definitive expert on distraction and multitasking" (Cal Newport). We spend an average of just 47 seconds on...

What if the life you're hoping for is already hiding in plain sight? When researchers asked people to count basketball passes in a short video, about half never noticed a gorilla walking right through the game. Your brain works the same way. Built to scan for danger, it walks past a hundred small, good things every day: the light on the wall, a kind word, the quiet proof that you already have enough. The Glimmer Effect teaches you to see them. Drawing on the science of attention, the nervous system and positive psychology, this beautifully illustrated guide shows how training your eye to ...

From the bestselling author of Do Hard Things and Win the Inside Game comes a guide to showing up in the moments that demand your best and shape who you become. We’ve all been there. The nerves, pressure, doubts, and that voice in our head screaming “what if I’m not good enough?” Once we...

A researcher and consultant burrows deep inside the heads of one modern two-career couple to examine how each partner processes the workday—revealing how a more nuanced understanding of the brain can allow us to better organize, prioritize, recall, and sort our daily lives. Emily and Paul are...

"Large Language Models: Fundamentals, Applications, and the Future of AI" offers a comprehensive exploration of large language models (LLMs), covering their core principles, practical applications, and potential future impact. Designed for a wide audience ranging from AI enthusiasts to seasoned researchers and industry professionals, this book provides a structured and in-depth understanding of these powerful AI systems. The book begins by establishing a solid foundation in natural language processing (NLP), transformers, and tokenization, crucial concepts for grasping how LLMs function. It...

Most golfers spend hours on the range without seeing real improvement. They chase YouTube tips, try to fix fifteen things at once, and get frustrated when they can’t achieve their goals. Coach Steve Small has worked with over 1,000 students and discovered something simple: the golfers who improve fastest aren't the ones who practice the most. They're the ones who keep their attention on their intention. In Breaking Bogey, you'll learn: Why breaking bogey is the milestone that changes everything The "two items on the menu" approach that actually creates improvement How to develop stock ...

The narrator of Attention-Seeking Behavior wants to tell you about Normal Ben, the man she’s been seeing: their running jokes, the stories she’s told him. She wants to tell you about the incorrect belief that tiny facial expressions betray a person’s real feelings. She wants to tell you about the time she went to a therapist to try to cure her lying habit. She wants to tell you about the body she found on a walk through the park. She wants to tell you about lies she’s told her demeaning, erratic boss.

Jhanas in a Nutshell: Your Practical Guide to Deep Meditative Absorption, Bliss and Inner Stillness Discover the hidden capacity of your own mind — joy, serenity, and clarity beyond distraction. For over 2,500 years, the Buddhist tradition has described the jhanas — states of deep meditative absorption where the mind rests in luminous stillness and bliss arises naturally. Far from being mystical or unattainable, these profound states are accessible to anyone willing to train their attention and cultivate inner calm. Jhanas in a Nutshell takes you step by step through this transformative...

Currie is well-known as the very first professional dating coach in what is now known as the "Manosphere" to encourage single heterosexual men to use upfront, specific, and straightforwardly honest verbal communication methods (otherwise known informally as "direct verbal game") as a means of quickly identifying women who possess sexually duplicitous tendencies and/or highly manipulative and materialistic desires with men.

What if the way forward begins by walking backward? For centuries, Taoist traditions developed practical ways of training attention: concentrative meditation, open monitoring, breath awareness, body-based focus, internal observation, symbolic practice, and the disciplined art of returning from distraction before distraction becomes identity. The Way of Attention: Walking Backward, Moving Forward brings those ancient practices into a living story. A wooden token appears in the reader’s hand. One side bears a circumpunct: a dot inside a circle. The other bears a simple crown, its lines ...

Attention is the real currency. Not time. Not talent. Not charisma. If you’ve ever walked out of a meeting knowing you were competent… and still didn’t move the room, you already know what this is about. If you’ve ever watched a conversation drift into fog, or felt yourself start performing, over-explaining, or rushing just to keep someone’s attention—same problem. You weren’t lacking personality. You were lacking structure. Attention Engineering: A Masterclass on The Crown Method is a practical course-in-a-book for people who want their communication to land—cleanly, ...

Understand what changes when you breathe, hold your breath, and focus your mind. Tummo brings breathing, muscular coordination, and visualization together in a Tibetan Buddhist practice of inner heat. Understanding Tummo gives you an illustrated explanation of the physiology and practical methods, with the traditional background that helps make sense of them. David Hastings Lloyd draws on scientific research and decades of meditation and martial arts practice to explain how the body produces and distributes heat, why carbon dioxide matters during breath retention, and how attention shapes ...

“At Attention is a story of healing, of hope, of that rush of new attraction, of friendship, trust building, letting go, and realizing that you can’t control your heart even when you have binders and lists to control everything else in your life.” —Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews...

Is your teen constantly procrastinating, forgetting assignments, losing track of time, getting distracted, or struggling to finish what they start? You know they can do it. They know they can do it. But somewhere between knowing what needs to happen and actually making it happen… things fall apart. That gap is where executive functioning skills come in. The Executive Functioning Skills Playbook for Teens turns these essential life skills into an engaging, gamified system of Levels, Missions, Side Quests, Brain Hacks, XPs, Power-Up Toolkits, and real-world challenges so your teen can learn...

Myths about Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder(ADD/ADHD) abound. This disorder frequently goes unrecognized, and even when diagnosed may be inadequately treated. In this up-to-date and clearly written audiobook, a leading expert offers a new way of understanding ADD. Drawing on recent findings in neuroscience and a rich variety of case histories from his own clinical practice, Dr. Thomas E. Brown describes what ADD syndrome is, how it can be recognized at different ages, and how it can best be treated.

Focus isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build. In a world engineered for distraction, the ability to control your attention is no longer a nice-to-have—it’s an advantage. Because focus doesn’t just help you get more done. It changes how you think, how you feel, and how you live. The Power of Focus is a practical, science-based training manual for strengthening the mental skill that quietly determines almost everything: how quickly you learn how effectively you perform how calm you stay under pressure and how much of your life you actually experience instead of...

Your mind is not broken. It is just missing a structure to land on. You have tried to focus. You have tried to meditate. You have sat with your breath, watched your thoughts, set timers, downloaded apps, and still ended the day feeling mentally scattered and quietly exhausted. This is not a discipline problem. It is a perceptual one, and it has a surprisingly simple solution. Visual Meditation is a practical guide to training attention through the one system the brain trusts above all others: vision. Drawing on ancient contemplative techniques that practitioners across Yogic, Zen, Tibetan, ...

What needs immediate attention in the church? What can wait? And what have we been ignoring for far too long? Every church faces problems, pressures, disagreements, tired volunteers, shifting priorities, and unexpected crises. But not every issue carries the same spiritual weight. In CHURCH TRIAGE, Rev. John E. Miller introduces a practical framework to help pastors, leaders, boards, ministry teams, and church members recognize the difference between: RED issues — matters that cannot wait YELLOW issues — warning signs that need attention GREEN issues — concerns that matter, but must ...