"**This is a marked departure from the self-centered “default setting,” whose only option is to see people as inert beings who are in the way: But if you’ve really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options**. "It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars—compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things. **That [[David Foster Wallace|Wallace]] frames this as a choice, one made against the “default setting,” speaks to the relationship between discipline, will, and attention** that I outlined in the last chapter." ([Location 2311](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07RHWKD7N&location=2311)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[attention]], [[inattentional-blindness]], [[monkey-business-test]], [[context]], [[framing]], [[character]], [[discipline]], [[default-effect]], **Source** -- [[20251230081807 - B - How to Do Nothing]] **See Also** -- [[202308180913 — AtN — You have the ability to reframe scenarios to protect your mental health]]