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#71: The Distraction Crisis & Brain-Enhancing Tools - Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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Is Your Brain Processing Interactions That Happened a While Ago?

i think we can all think of times where we've tried to multi task and it ends up just being single tasking poorly. And as your research have shown, age has an impact on it too. Now, also, i wanted to go in deeper on this internal distraction piece, cause that fascinates me. From kind of a meditation standpoint, there's obviously a lot of focus on mind wandering and attention,. A lot of meditationtech s, like if you go on a silent meditation retreat, you'll start to see all these thoughts coming up. It's almost like your brain is processing interactions that happened a while ago that it never had the opportunity to fully process.

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