This article, and some of these comments, come from a pretty naive place in terms of attention control. Most of the examples experienced by the author have ver

This article, and some of these comments, come from a pretty naive place in terms of attention control. Most of the examples experienced by the author have very little even to do with will. There are people who spend their entire lives directing their attention internally. Instead of experiencing your own relatively unexplored subjective experience and then extrapolating it, what if you consulted the experts? Others can definitely stabilize their attention to the point where they avoid responding to the stimulus of a moving trash can. Even children immersed in books can do this.