A good quote from an article I was recently reading (The Cultural Paradox of the Global Village - <a href="http://www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/article_culturalparadox.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/article_culturalparadox.htm</a>)<p>If attention is the most valuable commodity, our most valued asset, it may be said that the most valuable personal skill to be effective these days is ignorance, literally ignore-ance -- the ability to selectively and appropriately ignore that which is irrelevant or merely distracting. In this context, ignorance is not bliss -- it is the practical manifestation of acute awareness and heightened perception.