How to Practice Paying Attention

5 ways to steer it in support of your values

Ximena Vengoechea
Forge
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6 min readAug 27, 2021

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Like many writers, as a kid, I was a voracious reader. When you read a lot of books, you start to think differently. Not just about the world and what you’ve learned about it, or about people and what you now understand of them, but in how you compose your thoughts. Observations shift from matter-of-fact to exquisitely detailed…

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Ximena Vengoechea
Forge
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Writer, UX Researcher, Author of The Life Audit ('24), Rest Easy ('23), Listen Like You Mean It ('21). ximenavengoechea.com/books