Noise

Index

A

• Access:
  • to information, 6–7
  • Wi-Fi, 81, 197
• Accountability:
  • for implementing noise-reduction strategies, 229
  • sharing priorities to improve, 117–118
• Action, overcommunication as inhibitor of, 55, 58
• Active listening, see Present listening
• Addiction(s):
  • cycle of, 127–128
  • defined, 26
  • to drugs, 97
  • ingredients in, 27
  • to interruptions, 26–27
  • to noise, 9
  • to smartphone, 29
  • to technology, 24, 35–36, 44–46
  • to virtual reality, 34–36
  • willpower and, 126–128
• Adjustability, in healthcare setting, 201
• Agenda(s):
  • listening without, 154
  • for meetings, 211, 219, 224–225
• Aim, taking, see Prioritization
• Air Force, U.S., 19
• Alexian Brothers, 147
• Al Jazeera, 73
• Allen, David, 118
• Alliteration, 188
• Al-Qaeda, 73
• Alter, Adam, 27
• “Always on,” being, 44, 166. See also 24-hour connectivity
• AM, see Awareness Management
• American Psychiatric Association, 26
• Anemia, mental, 8–9, 38, 105
• Anxiety, social media as trigger for, 43–45, 48
• Apathy, 63
• Apple, 36, 37
• Applicability, of information, 12
• Apps, mobile, 26
• Arguments:
  • loss of civil discourse (vignette), 61–66
  • taking breaks in, 186
• Army, U.S., 116
• Artwork, replacing monitors with, 198
• Assault listening, 150–151
• Atchley, Paul, 48
• Athletic training, virtual reality for, 32
• Attachment to things, reducing, 221–222
• Attention:
  • and civil discourse, 65–66
  • directed, 102, 106
  • and information overload, 6
  • magicians' manipulation of, 181–183
  • misdirected, 102
  • in present listening, 151–152
  • quiet time to improve, 139–140
  • as resource, 98–99, 206
  • during ...