Principlev1PR-106
Remove high-salience stimuli from your environment before…
Remove high-salience stimuli from your environment before beginning focused work to reduce involuntary attentional capture and the cognitive cost of suppression.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Attention as Gate to Conscious Perception (attention is capacity-limited, unattended information becomes invisible), Automaticity Without Conscious Control (automatic processes capture attention involuntarily), and Behavior follows the path of least resistance due… (behavior follows path of least resistance). This is environmental design as a countermeasure to automatic attentional capture—prescriptive, actionable, general.
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AxiomDirected Attention as Depletable ResourceAxiomAttention as Gate to Conscious PerceptionAxiomAutomaticity Without Conscious ControlAxiomBehavior follows the path of least resistance due…AxiomTask-switching generates attention residue that persists…AxiomIntentional suppression of thoughts paradoxically increases…