Attention: The Most Stolen Human Resource
Attention is not disappearing.
It is being taken-quietly, constantly, and without our consent.
In ATTENTION - The Most Stolen Human Resource, V. B. Dershan explores why so many modern lives feel rushed, fragmented, and oddly empty despite intelligence, productivity, and constant connection. This is not a book about focus tricks or digital detoxes. It is a deeper inquiry into attention as the hidden foundation of a meaningful human life.
The book begins with a simple but unsettling insight: before we lose time, energy, or purpose, we lose attention. What we fail to attend to gradually disappears from our lives-depth, memory, relationship, inner stability. What we attend to relentlessly, even unintentionally, comes to define us.
Drawing from psychology, philosophy, ancient wisdom traditions, and lived human experience, this book shows how attention shapes perception, emotion, morality, and identity. It reveals why intelligence alone cannot protect us from distraction, and why attention matters more than information in an age of overload.
Rather than prescribing rigid systems or productivity frameworks, the book invites slower recognition. It examines how modern environments fragment attention, how novelty hijacks the mind, and how constant availability erodes inner life-often without obvious warning signs.
Midway, the focus turns inward. Attention is explored not as a skill to master, but as a relationship to cultivate. Through stillness, boundaries, single-tasking, and quiet courage, the reader is shown how attention can be reclaimed without escaping life or rejecting responsibility.
The book also looks beyond the individual. It considers attention as something we pass on-to children, to communities, and to future generations. It reflects on aging, wisdom, and why elders once saw more, not less, when attention was protected rather than exploited.
Later chapters address the moral and cultural dimensions of attention. A distracted society struggles to deliberate, care, and choose wisely. Protecting attention becomes not just a personal act, but a quiet form of responsibility in a world that profits from fragmentation.
Throughout, the tone remains reflective, humane, and unhurried. There are no slogans, no urgency, and no promises of mastery. The writing respects the reader's intelligence and trusts lived experience more than instruction.
This is a book meant to be read slowly. Some pages invite pause rather than progress. Reflection pages offer gentle prompts, not assignments. The goal is not to finish quickly, but to notice differently.
ATTENTION - The Most Stolen Human Resource is for readers who sense that something essential has been overlooked-not because it is complex, but because it is quiet. It is for those who feel busy but not deeply present, informed but not fully alive.
Above all, this book offers a simple orientation:
what you give your attention to, you give your life to.
And within that recognition lies a quiet freedom-to live with clarity, depth, and meaning, one attentive moment at a time.
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