Trained attention can reframe consumer-hell situations as sacred.

Evidence

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. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 447

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly counters the withdrawal misreading of the book title: this is attention redirected, not attention abandoned.