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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Why we can't pay attention anymore

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

How Much Do We Really Know?

There is overwhelming scientific evidence that if you sleep less, your attention will get worse. There's very strong evidence that we are all trying to do more things at what the average ten agen now believes they can follow seven forms of media at the same time. So i suspect most of us can feel what's happening to our attention in our own lives? God knows i can. But i guess the question is, how much do we really know at this point?

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