<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Attention behaves like a limited operating budget.... > Attention behaves like a limited operating budget. Every unresolved conflict, compulsive feed, repeated worry, and poorly bounded relationship reserves capacity that can no longer be invested in learning, work, health, or intimacy. The ledger is paid in hours whether or not the person keeps it. **Source:** [[livestreams/Protecting Attention for a More Deliberate Life - Workbook|Protecting Attention for a More Deliberate Life]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Attention behaves like a limited operating budget. Every unresolved conflict, compulsive feed, repeated worry, and poorly bounded relationship reserves capacity that can no longer be invested in learning, work, health, or intimacy. The ledger is paid in hours whether or not the person keeps it.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-attention-behaves-limited-whether-person-keeps ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->