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My experience is what I agree to attend to.
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The quote says that experience is shaped by attention. What a person agrees to notice becomes part of what they consciously live through, while what they overlook may remain outside their immediate experience. It does not say attention controls everything; it emphasizes that noticing helps determine how life is experienced.
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- Classics in the History of Psychology, York University
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