I recently finished reading Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher. It talks about why paying attention is good and shapes your life experience, and offers a few reminders as to how to do so. It was OK reading, though I expected it to be either more of an analysis of the state of rapt attention itself, or a book explaining how to pay attention better. It’s not quite either of those. It wasn’t a waste of time, but it certainly wasn’t as enthralling as I had hoped.