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#226 — The Price of Distraction

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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What You Do With Your Attention Changes Your Brain

The machinery that is producing our experience and cognition changes it self based on how it's used. That's as the key to all learning and everything else about us that leaves a trace. We really should view the consequences of paying attention to specific things in specific ways as being fairly indelible, until we do something else that changes us n some other way. It's almost like the algarithms that are successfully gaming our attention.

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