Bring Your Attention In Line with Your Intention | Dr. Pedram Shojai

Pedram Shojai (0:00)

Attention and focus are so sparse as a currency in a culture where information wars and social media and everything is trying to grab your attention and use it to manifest the world that they want versus the world that you choose, that a big part of my movement now has all been about bringing focus back, because without focus, you're lost. And without focus, I mean, things don't happen, things don't manifest without the fusion of attention and intention. Intention, you'll bank up some energy and be like, damn it, that's it, I'm gonna lose 30 pounds, it's New Year's, I'm gonna stop this, I'm gonna stop that. And then your focus is just not there, and so you just squander the energy and it's over.

Intention with attention together, you're a force of nature.

Michael Gervais (0:58)

Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. By trade and training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist. And the whole idea behind this podcast, behind these conversations, is to learn from people who have committed their life efforts towards mastery. And what does that mean? It means that they have dedicated their life to the deep understandings of self and or craft.

We want to understand how they organize their inner life so that we can better organize our own inner life.

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This is where it gets super interesting because he's an acclaimed Qigong master and Taoist abbot, using Eastern thinking and practices to help himself and others overcome the Westernized challenges of everyday life and to wake up and to live life to its fullest. So his upcoming book, Focus, Bringing Time, Energy and Money into Flow, is about bringing your attention in line with your intention to have the life you want.