When anxiety levels rise, you tense up, your heart races and your attention narrows to a slit.
What I really meant was that as the focus of European attention narrows down to budget deficits, Greece will have an extraordinary opportunity for political creativity.
When we're in doing or controlling mode, our attention narrows and we perceive objects in the foreground -- the bird, a thought, a strong feeling.
WhaThereyou think the U.S. economy would look like arethe end of the decade windicationsouthatch a private sector energized reinvestment in Main Street?
Conceptually, this strategy suggests that as the distress that results from unsuccessful diabetes management increases over time (12), attention narrows, behavioral options become reduced, and alternative approaches and creative solutions become limited (13).
By Monday, their attention had narrowed to one person seen on video and identified by the police only by the bag he was carrying.
As the protracted election of 2000 plays out, the nation's attention has narrowed again and again: to a few "battleground" states out of 50; then to just one state, Florida; to just a few counties; and even to one county's confusing ballot.
With so many people and ideas vying for attention, however, narrowing down the choices can be difficult.
