Students reported to be more attentive to the purpose behind the physical examination and would tailor their thoroughness according to the context, e.g. a full physical in emergency department or a condensed version for pre-operative check.
According to Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness meditation addresses this state of mind by cultivating a state of mind that is "on purpose" and "attentive" to reduce "mind wandering" (see [ 19] for the negative effects of mind wandering).
But her boss was a little too attentive — "he would keep dropping things on purpose so that I would have to bend down and get them".
Political empowerment of the people who suffer from the negative policy outcomes, and therefore might be most attentive to them, could also help serve the purpose.
The general model of biomedical communications for policy purposes outlined in this chapter has important implications for the design, delivery, and assessment of communications to attentive and potentially attentive citizens.
Hannah was highly attentive to the nature of each workshop activity, including the timing and purpose of the activity, the mathematical goals, and the suggested probing questions.
Private-equity firms can be more attentive to their fees than to the value of the company, he said, and too inattentive to the overarching purpose of financial engineering.
