Coaching practices for Notice the Noticer
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- Noting has become second nature and now I’m curious about the one doing the noticing itself
- Between my phone, my laptop, my watch and a wall of browser tabs, something is pinging or badging me constantly
- My phone buzzes every few minutes
- The calm I find on the cushion evaporates the moment I stand up and the day grabs me
- My whole attention as a manager is tuned to what’s broken
Practices that may help
- Advanced noting — noting the act of noting itself
Turn attention to the process of noting itself, observing who is doing the labeling and whether the "noter" is also a mental event.
Noting Practice, Made Practical - Reduce environmental triggers that pull attention reactively
Remove or silence the notifications, badges, and ambient signals that constantly compete for your attention.
Attention Management, Made Practical - Turn off all notifications except one-to-one human messages
Disable every notification that is not a direct message from a specific human — retain only person-to-person signals.
Defending Your Attention in the Attention Economy - Continuous noting — extending the practice into daily activity
Maintain a running background note on mental events throughout ordinary tasks, sustaining the observer stance informally.
Noting Practice, Made Practical - Catch people doing things right
Most management attention goes to problems — systematically noticing good work is both rarer and more powerful.
The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work - Glimmer hunting
Deliberately scan your environment for small sensory cues that feel safe or pleasant.
Glimmers: Micro-Moments That Cue Safety - Make the right cue salient at the decision moment
Reminders and cues placed where the decision happens shift behavior without any other change.
Nudge Theory, Made Practical - Make the tracker a visible cue
Place the tracker where you will see it, so it reminds and prompts as well as records.
Habit Tracking - Classify notifications into three tiers and configure each differently
Tier 1 — real-time alerts; Tier 2 — batched hourly; Tier 3 — silent or off.
Notification Detox - The last-time awareness practice
Periodically notice when you might be doing something for the last time — and let that awareness deepen your engagement.
Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things
Related concerns
- Attention Threshold
Direct attention explicitly to the features that define a category during early learning.
Attentional cueing for critical features
- Batch Notifications Strategy
Research consistently shows that notifications — even unread ones — impose measurable attention costs and increase stress. Batching or eliminating notifications reduces interruptions, recovers substantial focus time, and lowers reported stress, with no meaningful degradation in communication quality for most knowledge workers.
- Batched Notifications
Research consistently shows that notifications — even unread ones — impose measurable attention costs and increase stress. Batching or eliminating notifications reduces interruptions, recovers substantial focus time, and lowers reported stress, with no meaningful degradation in communication quality for most knowledge workers.
- Disable Push Notifications Phone
Disable all push notifications, then re-enable only those that represent a genuine real-time need.
Start with a nuclear audit: turn off everything, then add back only essentials
- How Notifications Hurt Focus
Research consistently shows that notifications — even unread ones — impose measurable attention costs and increase stress. Batching or eliminating notifications reduces interruptions, recovers substantial focus time, and lowers reported stress, with no meaningful degradation in communication quality for most knowledge workers.
- How To Reduce Notifications
A notification detox means systematically disabling all non-essential push notifications and rebuilding access to information on your schedule rather than the app’s. Observational research links notification volume to stress and fragmented attention; the structure for doing the detox is well established in digital wellbeing practice even if controlled trials are limited.
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