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Thought provoking post dude. I think our attention is the main thing that we need to regain control of to notice more.

Another way of practicing the deeper layer of "noticing" is to look up (and not only from our phones). E.g. when walking in the street, there is so much interesting stuff happening (architecture, different colours, perspectives) above eye level.

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🙏 Thank you my friend. Means a lot coming from you. Funny you mention that noticing exercise. I was skimming through "The Art of Noticing" by Rob Walker and one of the chapters is about looking "farther up" which is what you're talking about. You can look up while in motion but really cranking your head back to look at the top of buildings or even birds flying over requires the suspension of movement and activity and enables deeper observation.

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