Scientific Definition
Paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally — Kabat-Zinn's working definition adopted across the Masters of Mindfulness faculty.
Plain-English Definition
Paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally — Kabat-Zinn's working definition adopted across the Masters of Mindfulness faculty.
Feynman Explanation
It's not relaxation. It's high-resolution presence.
Core Principle
Paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally — Kabat-Zinn's working definition adopted across the Masters of Mindfulness faculty.
Mechanisms
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Paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally — Kabat-Zinn's working definition adopted across the Masters of Mindfulness faculty.
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Attention quality, decision quality, leadership composure.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
It's not relaxation. It's high-resolution presence.
Examples
- MBSR, MBCT, corporate mindfulness programs at Google, Cisco, P&G.
- Attention quality, decision quality, leadership composure.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Start with 10 minutes of attention training daily before any 'advanced' practice.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Start with 10 minutes of attention training daily before any 'advanced' practice.
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Interactive Mini Network
Click any neighbor to re-center the graph and follow the threads of connection.
Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed — a micro-intervention to insert a gap between stimulus and response.
Thinking about one's own thinking.
The NLP claim that the unconscious mind runs the body, stores memory, organizes patterns, and seeks to follow the directives it's given.
Knowing what you know — and how confidently you know it.
The continuous, accurate recognition of your own emotions, strengths, limits, and impact.
Your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn faster than the environment changes.
Malcolm Knowles's principles of adult learning: self-direction, experience as resource, readiness, problem-centered orientation, intrinsic motivation.
Amishi Jha's research: attention is a finite, depletable, but trainable cognitive resource — short daily mindfulness measurably improves it.
Approach a situation as if you knew nothing.
Unusual or bizarre material is more memorable than common material.
Hierarchy of cognitive learning: Remember → Understand → Apply → Analyze → Evaluate → Create. Benjamin Bloom, 1956 (revised 2001).
Wallace J. Nichols: proximity to water reliably shifts the nervous system toward a calmer, more creative state.