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Summary Of Pay Attention By Mark Edmundson

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Mark Edmundson’s essay “Pay Attention!” is an academic journal which focuses on what attention is and how people are affected by it. Edmundson contrasts attention with absorption instead of distraction. Also, he mentions how our culture lacks ways for people to become absorbed. People nowadays see attention as something is needs to be “paid” and try to rebel against it. The author wants to change that mindset to “becoming absorbed” in something. Edmundson believes that when someone is “absorbed” that person is experiencing joy in what they’re doing.

The author mentions how people nowadays “rebel” against attention, to illustrate it, Edmundson explains how attention is a discipline and people don’t like being told to do something. Furthermore,
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