{"id":3912,"date":"2013-11-01T10:16:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2013-11-01T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T17:04:06","slug":"the-mind-at-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=3912","title":{"rendered":"The mind at play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/open-awareness.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3917\" alt=\"open awareness\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/open-awareness.jpg?resize=499%2C156&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"499\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/open-awareness.jpg?w=499&amp;ssl=1 499w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/open-awareness.jpg?resize=300%2C93&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I \u00a0have a review of Daniel Goleman&#8217;s new book, <em>Focus,<\/em> in the <em>New York Times Sunday Book Review<\/em> this week. It (the review) starts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIneluctable modality of the visible.\u201d So begin the musings of Stephen Dedalus as he walks along Sandymount Strand in the third chapter of James Joyce\u2019s <em>Ulys\u00adses<\/em>. \u2009\u201cSignatures of all things I am here to read.\u201d The chapter isn\u2019t just a tour de force of prose writing. It\u2019s an exquisitely sensitive depiction of a mind at play. Conscious of his own consciousness, Dedalus monitors his thoughts without reining them in. He\u2019s at once focused and un\u00adfocused. Seemingly scattered ideas, sensations and memories coalesce into patterns, into art.<\/p>\n<p>Brain researchers and Zen masters call this state of mind \u201copen awareness&#8221;\u00a0&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/03\/books\/review\/focus-by-daniel-goleman.html\">Read on<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I \u00a0have a review of Daniel Goleman&#8217;s new book, Focus, in the New York Times Sunday Book Review this week. It (the review) starts: \u201cIneluctable modality of the visible.\u201d So begin the musings of Stephen Dedalus as he walks along Sandymount Strand in the third chapter of James Joyce\u2019s Ulys\u00adses. \u2009\u201cSignatures of all things I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3912"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}