["Mind &Language, EarlyView. ", "\nAttentional guidance plays two crucial roles in temporally extended agency. First, guidance stabilizes attention onto our tasks—and tunes out distractions—for extended periods of time. Second, guidance makes attention telic/atelic. Guidance imposes completion conditions on telic attention (e.g., searching for your keys) but not atelic attention (e.g., staring at a mountain vista). Telic attention unfolds towards an endpoint (a telos) and is then complete, whereas atelic attention unfolds until it is interrupted at some arbitrary time. My account of the distinction between telic and atelic guidance undermines three common assumptions about attention: the extrinsic, completion, and individuation assumptions.\n"]