Dr. Ken Tangen gives a quick overview of attention. It turns out we are always paying attention, just not to what others want us to see.

1. Why Aren’t You
Paying Attention?

2. Mostly,
you’re busy doing other things

3. Busy thinking about
How long
do I bow?
Why is he
bowing?

4. Busy thinking about
How long
do I bow?
Why is he
bowing?
Don’t
recall
name

5. Busy tracking what’s happening

6. Or what’s for lunch

7. We need to know where we
are...

8. And what objects are close to us.

9. Where you are in relation to things
CONTEXT

10. These
are important

11. We use them to remember
our to do list.

12. Ever had a thought in the
kitchen...

13. But lost it when you went
into the
living
room?

14. “Doorway
Phenomenon” Quite
common

15. When you go back through the
doorway, the idea comes back.

16. We were using location context
cues to remember to call Mom.

17. Gone back to your home town?

18. Visiting family home can flood
you with memories
Why?

19. Visiting family home can flood
you with memories
Location context cues

20. We use location cues to
help us remember.
with memories

21. It’s not that we’re not paying
attention.

22. We’re paying attention to
Something Else

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