Psychology clarifies why curation matters: attention is finite, and the mind overweights the aversive. Baumeister et al., in “Bad Is Stronger Than Good” (2001), show how negative stimuli claim disproportionate mental real estate. Consequently, the unguarded day becomes an open call for distraction and dread. By shaping the “gallery” of inputs—muted notifications, batched email, news in set windows—we preserve wall space for the art that deserves it. In this way, we treat attention not as a sieve but as a sanctuary. [...]
