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#418 - Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention And Focus
Modern Wisdom
The Number One Reason for Our Loss of Attention Is Technology, Right?
If you put a gun to my head and said, a hundred years from now, when they look back at us and they think we had an attention crisis. What will they attribute it to? It might well be air pollution. Nothing in our evolution prepared us for iron coming into our brain that way. We have emerging evidence about this. There's a really disturbing study of children who live in highly polluted areas. When they did brain studies, of them literally had placks and tangles in their brain - early stages of dimentia. To be honist, i've alwas been someoe. Wo thought that was a loaded bull ship. But when i looked at the vidence
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