...at all costs or needing to win! Chapter 9 "Millions of items of the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience....mind— without selective interest, experience is utter chaos. " William James Creating a Vernacular of Leadership In order to talk coaching in the organization,...

...presence to the senses of an outward order. Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience....what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I natice shape my mind - without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos. (James 1950: 402l...

...LEAST-EFFORT PRINCIPLE The Notion of Limited Capacity Millions of items of the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience....interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend tn. Only those items which 1 notice shape my mind — without selective 26 27 interest, experience...

...that what did not appear 'interesting' to the individual, was usually not taken to be there at all: "my experience is what I agree to attend to. Only...selective interest, experience is an utter chaos" (PP I 380-1). In a celebral manner, he described "the glaring and patent fact of subjective interests...

...consciousness and the very notion of the self: Millions of items of the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience....selective interest, experience is an utter chaos. (Ibid., pp. 380-81; emphasis in original) As a phenomenologist, James sought to show not only how we...

...Principles of Psychology: Millions of items . . . arc presumed to my senses which never properly enter my experience. Why? Because they have no interest...for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. . . . Everyone knows what attention is. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid...

...William James suggested one hundred years ago, "Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience....selective interest, experience is an utter chaos." We should clarify that when we use the term interest we do not merely refer to what someone likes or...

...the experiential information available to the organism. Thus, William James was right in claiming, 'My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind' " (Csikszentmihalyi, 1978, p. 339). The choices made are critical because attention is finite, limiting...

...in Rathunde 1993: 62) observed that: ...millions of items in the outward order are presented to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me.. ..without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos. Cognitive psychologists have adopted James'...

...thoughts out of an otherwise meaningless whirl. "My experience is what I agree to attend to," he wrote. "Only those items which I notice shape my mind —...without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos."40 In this psychological sense of selective attention, "interest" formed the essential instrument...