{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The attention dilemma","description":"EI's Paul Lay and Alastair Benn discuss an attention dilemma that has haunted western thought for centuries.\n\nREADING LIST\n\nOur attention dilemma is age-old | Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/our-attention-dilemma-is-age-old/)\n\nEpistulae Morales ad Lucilium | Seneca (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius)\n\nThe Essays of Michel de Montaigne (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3600)\n\nDon Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes (https://bookstore.centerforfiction.org/item/VT7a219NPFUn6Apx0Hj-5w)\n\nEngelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit (https://axsonjohnsonfoundation.org/) . EI Talks... is hosted by Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-miracle-of-tristan-und-isolde/) and Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) . The sound engineer is Gareth Jones.\n\nImage: Detail from Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1903. Credit: SuperStock / Alamy Stock Photo","author_name":"The EI Podcast","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5029938-the-ei-podcast","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/42099322/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}