Attention, Boredom, and Enchantment

A fine pairing of two recent articles

Boredom is a failure of attention, but practicing attention opens the possibility for enchantment.

That’s the conclusion you’ll draw from these two pieces, both of which hit my radar, as it happened, one after the other. Instead of publishing them separately, they make a nice pairing. One provides empirical evidence, the other philosophical evidence, but…