The Art of Noticing

Journalist Rob Walker outlines engaging practices to encourage mindfulness and inspire creativity.
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After years of covering the technology industry, consumer culture, and the modern workplace, Rob Walker noticed that people were losing their ability to be present. In his perceptive talks, he shares tips, rituals, and innovative ideas for building mindfulness.  

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Rob Walker’s The Art of Noticing seeks to solve the epidemic of distraction that prevents people from thinking, seeing, and listening to the world around us. Through a series of simple exercises, he maps ways to think more clearly and creatively—and how to notice what everybody else missed.

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Discussion guides and exercises encourage teams to practice mindfulness and find fresh perspectives in the everyday. Click here to download a discussion guide for The Art of Noticing to use with your team.

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Rob Walker teaches audiences how to focus on the art of noticing in a time of mental distraction.

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“Rob Walker provides an essential guide to becoming an explorer of your everyday world.”
Austin Kleon, New York Times-bestselling author of Steal Like An Artist
“Walker encourages us to make a non-literal reading of our world, which can mean non-judgmental and more enlightened.”
Leanne Shapton, author of Swimming Studies
“Rob was fantastic and our group really enjoyed his presentation, practical advice, and approach to driving creativity. Everyone walked away inspired.”
E. & J. Gallo Winery
“Attention is a muscle, one we can easily develop. Rob Walker gives us 131 ways to treasure and improve our ability to see.”
Seth Godin, author of This is Marketing
“At once passionate and charming, [Walker] makes the case that noticing what’s there is the first step in creating what’s new.”
Michael Bierut, co-founder of Design Observer

Program Topics

  • The Payoffs of Paying Attention

    Mindfulness has caught on in the business world, but often seems over-complicated and off-putting. In this talk, Rob Walker gives an introduction to the simple act of noticing, and teaches audiences how they can build their attention muscles through easy and fun rituals. Drawing on examples from his book, he captures the mindfulness spirit in a practical way.

The Art of Noticing

The Art of Noticing

131 WAYS TO SPARK CREATIVITY, FIND INSPIRATION, AND DISCOVER JOY IN THE EVERYDAY

An imaginative, thought-provoking book to awaken your senses and attune them to the things that matter in your life.

Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are constantly tethered to phones, email, and social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present is often lost: to think and to see and to listen.

Enter Rob Walker’s The Art of Noticing. This gorgeously illustrated volume will spark your creativity help you see the world anew. Through a series of simple and playful exercises–131 of them–Walker illuminates ways to think more clearly, listen more closely, engage more creatively and to rediscover your curiosity and sense of passion.

FORMATS AVAILABLE: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook

PAGE COUNT; PUBLICATION DATE: 256 pages; May 7, 2019

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The Art of Noticing

“The Art of Noticing is filled with clever, eminently deployable strategies for getting more from the world around you. It’s a paean to alertness, a sensory upgrade, a delightful field guide to being alive.

—Tom Vanderbilt, bestselling author of Traffic and You May Also Like

“Rob Walker’s writing has always been wonderful because of his unique eye for noticing what other people miss. With this new book, he’s basically teaching you all his secrets for seeing.”

—Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of Ego is the Enemy and The Obstacle Is The Way
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