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I was thinking the other day how we rarely run into trouble when things are going great. Seems obvious, right? It’s usually when we are stressed, or rushed, or surprised, or tired or hungry or… otherwise off balance, that we say things we regret, do things that make it worse, and suffer the most difficult emotional upheavals. I often hear clients berate themselves for not using a new skill when it would have helped, and then describe the wildest, most… Action-movie-level of crisis situation...

Attention activism is the radical idea that if we start to understand human attention as a precious resource, and become more aware of the ways it’s being mined and exploited, we begin the process of taking it back. We can connect with attention activism through the areas of education and awareness, organising with others around it, and creating 'attention sanctuaries' in our everyday lives.

Continuing on from the previous post about guilt vs shame, I wanted to write a bit about humiliation and embarrassment, other feelings which can get confused for shame. The way you feel when a friend notices your fly is unzipped… Or the way you felt when you said something wrong in front of the whole classroom, and everybody laughed loudly at you. These are examples of classic situations which can trigger guilt, embarrassment, humiliation, and shame. We typically mix up these words as a...