Instead of building towards a thesis or providing an organized survey of her theme, author Winifred Gallagher begins and ends "Rapt" with scattered essays that don't seem to be much about focus and attention at all. I'm disappointed that this book about attention was not, itself, more sharply focused. In asserting its groundbreaking thesis-the wise investment of your attention is the single most important thing you can do to improve your well-being- Rapt yields fresh insights into the nature of reality and what it means to be fully alive.more No matter what your quotient of wealth, looks, brains, or fame, increasing your satisfaction means focusing more on what really interests you and less on what doesn’t. In Rapt, Gallagher introduces us to a diverse cast of characters-artists and ranchers, birders and scientists-who have learned to do just that and whose stories are profound lessons in the art of living the interested life.
As suggested by the expression “pay attention,” this cognitive currency is a finite resource that we must learn to spend wisely. That we focus may be a biological necessity- research now proves we can process only a little information at a time, or about 173 billion bits over an average life-but the good news is that we have much more control over our focus than we think, which gives us a remarkable yet underappreciated capacity to influence our experience. Science’s major contribution to the study of attention has been the discovery that its basic mechanism is an either/or process of selection. Gallagher looks beyond sound bites on our proliferating BlackBerries and the increased incidence of ADD in children to the discoveries of neuroscience and psychology and the wisdom of home truths, profoundly altering and expanding the contemporary conversation on attention and its power. Gallagher grapples with provocative questions-Can we train our focus? What’s different about the way creative people pay attention? Why do we often zero in on the wrong factors when making big decisions, like where to move?-driving us to reconsider what we think we know about attention. In Rapt, acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher makes the radical argument that the quality of your life largely depends on what you choose to pay attention to and how you choose to do it. Gallagher grapples with provocative questions-Can we train our fo Winifred Gallagher revolutionizes our understanding of attention and the creation of the interested life The story looked even better with patients experiencing a 50% improvement in EASI score - 42.9% of patients treated with RPT193 achieved this marked improvement compared to only 10% of patients in the placebo group.Winifred Gallagher revolutionizes our understanding of attention and the creation of the interested life In Rapt, acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher makes the radical argument that the quality of your life largely depends on what you choose to pay attention to and how you choose to do it. That was more than twice the 17% improvement seen in patients on a placebo. Patients treated with the company's experimental drug achieved a 36.3% improvement in the Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI) score from baseline. You'd expect that RAPT's results from the early-stage study of RPT193 had to be fantastic for the biotech stock to more than double. The huge gain came after the company announced positive top-line results from a phase 1b clinical study evaluating RPT193 in treating moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis.
RAPT Therapeutics ( NASDAQ:RAPT) stock was crushing it on Monday, with shares skyrocketing 110.4% as of 11:59 a.m. His background includes serving in management and consulting for the healthcare technology, health insurance, medical device, and pharmacy benefits management industries. Keith began writing for the Fool in 2012 and focuses primarily on healthcare investing topics.
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