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#584 - Dr Gloria Mark - How To Take Control Of Your Attention

Modern Wisdom

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Are There Different Types of Attention?

There is more that we can attend to than we have capacity to attend to. That means that we have this task switching, attentional distraction. If you're not engaged or challenged, that's a state of boredom. An example is playing solitaire. Or I have an anagram game that I'd like to play. It's easy, but I'm really engaged in it. And I'm not really putting in a lot of effort. So those are the four types.

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