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Radical Mindfulness: The Ethics of Attention in a Disordered World

Radical Mindfulness: The Ethics of Attention in a Disordered World. J. Hughes. What is Studying?. Mindfulness Revolution. Multitasking and rumination Make us sad and stressed Make us stupid Mindfulness training Overcomes depressing rumination Improves emotional regulation

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Radical Mindfulness: The Ethics of Attention in a Disordered World

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  1. Radical Mindfulness: The Ethics of Attention in a Disordered World J. Hughes

  2. What is Studying?

  3. Mindfulness Revolution Multitasking and rumination • Make us sad and stressed • Make us stupid Mindfulness training • Overcomes depressing rumination • Improves emotional regulation • Helps control pain • Slows the hedonic treadmill • Makes us nicer

  4. Mindful students • Mindfulness training programs integrated into education “The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. No one is compos sui if he have it not. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.” William James (1890)

  5. Mindful workers • Wired: Silicon Valley

  6. Mindful soldiers • Overcoming PTSD • BioZen • Samurai

  7. Mindfulness Drugs • Caffeine, qat and coca • Nicotine • ADD stimulants:Adderall, methylphenidate • Anti-fatigue drugs:Modafanil, ampakines

  8. Mindfulness Apps

  9. Augmented Cognition • Using real-time neurofeedback to monitor and adjust your focus

  10. Attention Economy • Capitalism wants our divided attention as consumers but wants us focused as workers • We are addicted to the constant flow of information, entertainment and socially triggered dopamine • Capitalism also wants to sell us mindfulness, for those of us who want it

  11. Mindfulness as Pacification • For Buddhists mindfulness is one component of character shaping, but it is combined with moral behavior and right livelihood • Zen Urban guerrilla 100% • Adapt to bad schools or change them? • Adapt to the stress of the workplace or change it? • Let go of PTSD or work for less violence?

  12. Active, Critical Mindfulness • Mindfulness to complement critical understanding and passionate engagement • Mindfulness infused with compassion • Trampling greed, hatred and ignorance

  13. Making a More Mindful World • Laws banning drinking or texting while driving • Apps that check your sobriety and don’t allow sending and receiving texts while moving • Social etiquette for when to check messages in a conversation • Laws to discourage people working longer days on wakefulness drugs • Error rate of overworked medical interns

  14. Become ethically Mindful Less Bread and Circuses • Meaningless scandals • Celebrities • Sports • Social media More of our lives and the celebration and improvement of our world

  15. BECOME MINDFUL BECOME ETHICALLY MINDFUL BECOME DANGEROUSLY MINDFUL

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