  The quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions is not in local
thermal equilibrium at early times. Despite this, dissipative hydrodynamics
describes the evolution of the energy-momentum tensor quite well after only
roughly 0.5 - 1 fm/c. This can be understood using the concept of a
non-equilibrium dynamical attractor. The attractor is a uniquely identifiable
solution to the dynamical equations to which all solutions are drawn as the
system evolves. Once solutions collapse onto the non-equilibrium attractor they
are ``pseudo-thermalized'' in the sense that they have lost information about
the precise initial conditions used, but are not yet in exact local thermal
equilibrium. Here I review recent work which demonstrates that there exists a
non-equilibrium attractor in full kinetic theory models which goes beyond the
usual low-order momentum moments considered in hydrodynamical treatments.
