heedfulness


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Synonyms for heedfulness

concentration of the mental powers on something

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Synonyms for heedfulness

the trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities

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Both articulating and accounting for constitute important aspects of heedfulness. Articulating indicates that signals about heedfulness should happen during deliberation itself, which is potentially tricky because deliberation often refers to specific decisions about things that will occur after deliberation has concluded.
Heedfulness in the absence of a specific agreement entails articulating the influence of engagement on one's thoughts and actions.
One payoff of heedful interrelating during and apart from group activities is that such heedfulness can activate sufficient reserves of individuals' knowledge so that the group can understand unanticipated events that quickly develop in unexpected directions (Weick & Roberts, 1993, p.
The group leaders used architecture to promote group involvement, unity, and heedfulness, thus to foster a collective mind within the group.
These separate efforts vary in the heedfulness with which they interrelate, and these variations form a pattern.
If collective mind is embodied in the interrelating of social activities, and if collective mind is developed more or less fully depending on the amount of heedfulness with which that interrelating is done, we must address the issue of what accounts for variations in heed.
A parallel statement is given for wholesome states, with heedfulness (appamada)--i.e., alert mindful attentiveness--stimulating the arising of wholesome states, and negligence (pamada) and indolence (kosajja) being a powerful sustainer of the unwholesome.