Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

Gallagher, Winifred

ISBN 10: 1594202109 / ISBN 13: 9781594202100

Published by Penguin Press, New York, 2009

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8vo, 244 pp., Inscribed & signed by the author on the title page.

Seller Inventory # 043292

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
• Publisher: Penguin Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594202109
• ISBN 13: 9781594202100
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology

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Synopsis

The behavioral scientist author of Just the Way You Are presents a provocative argument that the quality of one's life is directly related to the focus of one's attention, drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology to cover such topics as the human capacity for training concentration, the ways in which the creative mind thinks, and why people deliberate on the wrong factors when making big decisions.

About the Author

Winifred Gallagher’s books include House Thinking, Just the Way You Are (a New York Times Notable Book), Working on God, and The Power of Place. She has written for numerous publications, such as Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times. She lives in Manhattan, and Dubois, Wyoming.